FOR THOSE WHO ARE deeply cynical—and anxious—about the state of the planet, Healing the Land Teaches Us Who We Are (North Atlantic Books) offers a rare thing: hope. Drawing from Indigenous knowledge…
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POWERED BY THE MYTHICAL Aztec goddess Cōātlīcue, with her skirt made of snakes, The Sleeping Sisters (Mulholland Books) is a roiling stew of Chicana-Indigenous literary horror. Albuquerque resident…
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IN THE LOST CITIES of El Norte (Mariner Books), Peter Stark chronicles Francisco Coronado’s disastrous 1540 expedition across the unforgiving landscapes of the Southwest, but the book’s real power…
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TAYLOR BROWN’S Wolvers (St. Martin’s Press) drops readers into southwestern New Mexico’s rugged Gila Wilderness, where the reintroduction of Mexican gray wolves has reignited old tensions. At the…
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NAVAJO NATION poet laureate Jake Skeets won several national awards for his 2019 debut, which centers on queer eros on the rez. His stunning follow-up, Horses (Milkweed Editions), describes…
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IN HER DEBUT NOVEL, I Am Agatha (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster), Nancy Foley channels the distinctive rhythms of a famous artist’s interior monologue. Inspired by a rumored packet of destroyed…
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KATHLEEN M. RODGERS’S new novel beautifully captures the feeling of growing up landlocked and dreaming of the sea. Set in the fictional eastern New Mexico town of Sandhill, The Llano County Mermaid…
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WHEN THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO announced it would cut the men’s soccer program in 2018, fans, players, and alumni were stunned. The Lobos weren’t just competitive—they were nationally recognized…
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IN SANTA FE, someone has murdered an art collector, and now they’re moving on to Native artists. The police have called in a private eye: Think Philip Marlowe, but make him Apache. Eagle Eye…
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T HE KÁRMÁN LINE (Rescue Press), the title of Daisy Atterbury’s breathtaking, genre-blurring memoir in poetry and prose, refers to the threshold between Earth and outer space. “Above the Kármán line,”…
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