Philip Connors has made not one career but two from “looking out.” Since 2002, Connors has spent five months of the year as a fire lookout in the Gila Wilderness, living in a 7 x 7 glass and steel cube fifty feet in the sky. In this occupation, his main task is to watch for […]
Some urban raccoons can untie knots and open doors. Fisher cats aren’t felines and don’t eat fish. A bobcat’s teeth have evolved to fit precisely into the spaces of its prey’s spinal cord. Spotted skunks warn away predators by doing a handstand on their front feet and spreading their back legs in the air. As […]
Marty Eberhardt, Silver City/Tucson mystery novelist, is a rare find. As in her premier outing for garden employee Bea Rivers, Eberhardt’s Bones in the Back Forty tells a sweet, sweet story. She offers a new genre of joyful suspense every time a reader cracks open one of her books. A mystery reader who plunges into […]
Gila Lost and Found: Search and Rescue in New Mexico by Marc Levesque Reviewed by JJ Amaworo Wilson Gila Lost and Found recounts the author’s experiences as a Search and Rescue (SAR) field coordinator in the Gila Wilderness. It’s part a “how to survive” and part an adventure book, although some parts read like entry […]
Within Our Grasp: Childhood Malnutrition Worldwide and the Revolution Taking Place to End It by Sharman Apt RussellPantheonApril 6, 2021ISBN-10: 1524747246 Reviewed by JJ Amaworo Wilson Humans have been hungry for a long time. The four-thousand-year-old tomb of Ankhtifi holds the inscription “All of Upper Egypt was dying of hunger to such a degree that […]
As 2020 comes to a close, the Southwest Word Fiesta committee highlights a few of the finest books we read this year. The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil’s Everyday Insurrections by Eliane Brum is a book of essays based on interviews with Brazil’s marginalized people. Among her interviewees are an 85-year-old hoarder, […]
We respectfully acknowledge that the entirety of southwestern New Mexico is the traditional territory, since time immemorial, of the Chis-Nde, also known as the people of the Chiricahua Apache Nation. The Chiricahua Apache Nation is recognized as a sovereign Native Nation by the United States in the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Friendship of 1 July 1852 (10 Stat. 979) (Treaty of Santa Fe ratified 23 March 1853 and proclaimed by President Franklin Pierce 25 March 1853).
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