THOMAS W. SWETNAM’S The Jemez Mountains: A Cultural and Natural History (University of New Mexico Press), doesn’t read like the academic tome its title suggests. The 40 short chapters explore colorful…
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MISSING YOUR WEEKLY Dark Winds fix while you await season 4 of the AMC drama? Pick up Shadow of the Solstice (Harper), Anne Hillerman’s latest mystery set on the Navajo Nation. When the U.S. secretary…
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KYLE PAOLETTA’S debut, American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest (Pantheon Books), offers a compelling exploration of five Southwestern metropolises, with Albuquerque—the…
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SANTA FEANS LOST a culinary gem when the trendsetting Corn Dance Café closed its doors in 2003. More than 20 years later, its chef-owner Loretta Barrett Oden shares many of her beloved recipes in Corn…
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SANDS AND SCIENCE shift under the weight of history in Rachel Robbins’s debut novel, The Sound of a Thousand Stars (Alcove Press). Set during World War II, the story primarily follows Alice Katz, a…
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“LANGUAGE IS AT THE BASE and core of relating to others,” Acoma Pueblo poet Simon J. Ortiz writes in Light as Light (University of Arizona Press). “Language is motion. Action. Doing. Letting. Sharing…
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BEGINNING IN 2010, Christie Green learned to hunt elk, deer, oryx, turkey, grouse, and quail in the eight eco-regions of New Mexico. Her deeply moving memoir, Moonlight Elk: One Woman’s Hunt for Food…
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AT THE OUTSET of Lost Birds (Harper), Anne Hillerman’s gripping ninth novel in the Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito series, a man rings up retired detective-turned-private-eye Joe Leaphorn for help. As…
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SET IN THE 1960S and filled with beautifully captured moments of nostalgia, Shoot the Moon (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) is a heartfelt novel from Isa Arsén, a love letter to the Southwest inspired by…
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IN 1986, DOUGLAS PRESTON drove from New York City to Santa Fe. There, he settled into a writing career that included contributions to New Mexico Magazine. His 1995 New Yorker article, “The Mystery of…
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