A groundbreaking reassessment of the relationship between Federico Garcia Lorca and American poet Philip Cummings and its impact on the poems in Lorca's landmark collection, Poet in New York. Lorca in Vermont tells the story of two young lovers with mismatched goals and expectations: Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, already well established in ......
A deft history and analysis of John Sayles' 1996 cinematic masterpiece. Alison Fields places Lone Star in a western film framework and emphasizes Lone Star's ability to highlight the conflicts between socially entrenched borderlands history and its multifaceted reality. Filmmaker John Sayles has been a key voice in independent cinema since the ......
Malcolm W. Browne, Thich Quang Duc, and the News Photograph That Stunned the World
The Ultimate Protest: Malcolm W. Browne, Thich Quang Duc, and the News Photograph That Stunned the World examines how the most unlikely of war correspondents, Malcolm W. Browne, became the only Western reporter to capture Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc's horrific self-immolation on June 11, 1963. Quang Duc made his ultimate sacrifice to protest the ......
In this entertaining, thought-provoking detective graphic novel set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a fictional Ilan Stavans seeks to solve a murder and locate a lost manuscript by a prominent 16th-century Crypto-Jew burned at the stake by the Spanish Inquisition. When young Rolando Perez falls to his death from a cliff outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, ......
Moe Sedway, "Bugsy" Siegel, and the Birth of Organized Crime in Las Vegas
The story of Moe Sedway, the eponymous "shadow" to Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, from his days as Bugsy's right hand associate to his suspected role in Bugsy's unsolved disappearance, and the role Sedway played in the creation of modern Las Vegas. Early in the Prohibition era, Moe Sedway became part of the New York organized crime gang led by Meyer ......
A documentary photographer turns his camera to the cars and people who make up Albuquerque's lowrider culture, capturing this unique community with honesty and deep reverence. Seventh and Central is a photographic tribute to Albuquerque's vibrant lowrider culture-an immersive visual journey through a tradition rooted in family, art, and ......
A heartfelt look at the state of modern fly-fishing and the challenges fishers will face in the coming decades. Ron Dungan, like many fly-fishers, can be obsessive. Although decades of fishing trips have led him to encounter snakes, bears, and treacherous terrain, his main focus is always the fish-how to find them, how to outsmart them, and how ......
One of the most important archaeological discoveries of the last century, which rocked the field of archaeology and fundamentally shifted our collective knowledge of human occupation in the Americas. On a warm winter day in 2005, while mending fences in the backcountry of White Sands National Park, David F. Bustos, the park's biologist turned ......
Author and historian Garrett Peck traces Willa Cather's adventures in the Southwest and how they influenced her best book. Six months before she died, Willa Cather called her 1927 novel Death Comes for the Archbishop her "best book." The Atlantic magazine concurred, including Archbishop on its Great American Novels list in 2024. A perennial ......
