Review of “California” by Edan Lepucki.
Books
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
On the edge of Custer’s last stand
Review of “Far As the Eye Can See” by Robert Bausch.
Posted inJanuary 12, 2015: What Are We Thinking?
A modern movement in tribal building design
Review of “New Architecture on Indigenous Lands,” by Joy Monice Malnar and Frank Vodvarka
Posted inDecember 22, 2014: The Dust Detectives
Photographs of New Mexicans spanning 20 years
Review of “Taos Portraits: Photos by Paul O’Connor.”
Posted inDecember 22, 2014: The Dust Detectives
Shards of hope in the Mojave
Review of “29” by Mary Sojourner.
Posted inDecember 22, 2014: The Dust Detectives
Six decades of river exploration
Review of “Downstream Toward Home” by Oliver A. Houck.
Posted inDecember 8, 2014: The Great Salmon Compromise
Finding an inner compass
Review of “Steal the North” by Brittain Bergstrom.
Posted inDecember 8, 2014: The Great Salmon Compromise
New Mexico interregnum
Review of “Backlands: A Novel of the American West” by Michael McGarrity.
Posted inDecember 8, 2014: The Great Salmon Compromise
Contemporary photographs of 19th century art
Review of “Karl Bodmer’s America Revisited” by Robert Lindholm.
Posted inArticles
What 4-H teaches 7 million kids about food
A new book explores what the century-old organization looks like today.
Posted inNovember 24, 2014: Transportation Transformation
A poetic search for a lost father
Review of ‘Crow Blue’ Adriana Lisboa.
Posted inNovember 24, 2014: Transportation Transformation
Social work blues
Review of ‘Fourth of July Creek’ by Smith Henderson.
Posted inNovember 10, 2014: Fallout
Hope and futility on the Great Plains
Review of ‘Wild Idea: Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land’ by Dan O’Brien.
Posted inNovember 10, 2014: Fallout
Review of “The Memory of Stone: Meditations on the Canyons of the West”
Photographs from Utah’s Monument Valley to the Petrified Forest.
Posted inNovember 10, 2014: Fallout
Speaking art to power
Review of ‘Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and And Art in the Changing West’ by Lucy R. Lippard
Posted inOctober 27, 2014: Defuse the West
Nowhere left to run
Review of “Point of Direction” by Rachel Weaver
Posted inOctober 27, 2014: Defuse the West
Review of “The Color of Being Born” by Michael Cadieux
Paintings that depict the precarious relationship between humankind and the natural world.
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
“If there’s squash bugs in heaven, I ain’t staying” by Stacia Spragg-Braude
If there’s squash bugs in heaven, I ain’t staying Stacia Spragg-Braude, 200 pages, hardcover: $29.95 Museum of New Mexico Press, 2013 Nestled amid the orchards of New Mexico’s Rio Grande Valley is the old farming village of Corrales, where 85-year-old Evelyn Losack harvests fruit on land that has been in her family for 150 years. […]