New Mexico Mercury

Breaking Apart - Sentiments of Secession in Spain

“After I vote, I look up into the sky and say a prayer that it will turn out alright,” says a Spaniard named Francisco Noviola. It’s November 9 and I’m in Barcelona, Spain to observe the referendum on independence that was taking place throughout the region of Catalonia, of which Barcelona is the capital. Noviola was one of the many voters I interviewed...

Friday Voyage: Villanueva’s ‘Colcha’ Tapestry

In a semi-isolated New Mexican village, a collective artwork narrates a cultural history. 

Public Square: Impact of Early Learning

In this program, we bring together parents, teachers, advocates and people who run early learning programs to discuss the state of New Mexico's Pre-K programs.

El Machete: See no 43, hear no 43…

See no 43, hear no 43

One Struggle: From Burque to the West Bank and Back

A journey to Palestine and reflection on self-determination.

Five Questions for New Mexico Authors - Sharon Oard Warner

This week we ask author, UNM English professor, and founder and director of the Taos Summer Writer’s Conference Sharon Oard Warner about her intriguing new novel Sophie’s House of Cards, published this year by the University of New Mexico Press.

New Mexico Mercury: One of the many fascinating aspects of this novel is the use of tarot imagery as an organizing principle for the story. How did you come to that idea?

Sharon Oard Warner: Many years ago, I listened to a fellow writer, Wayne Johnson, talk about his writing aspirations. He said he wanted to write a novel that took its structure from a metaphor or recurring motif...

Provincial Matters, 11-17-2014

V.B. Price's weekly collection of appreciations and observations.

¡COLORES! November 14, 2014

Painter Jim Vogel captures the magic of life and culture in New Mexico. The walls of Texas Southern University have served as the canvas for students for over 60 years...

El Machete: Voting Cycle

Voting Cycle

Michael Datcher takes ABQ on a distinct ‘trip down memory lane’ this Saturday at the Outpost

Sometimes nonfiction is just not quite creative enough. Not even creative nonfiction. “With fiction, my goal is to remind people about the vitality of fiction. In our world people prefer nonfiction,” says Loyola Marymount Professor and New York Times Bestselling author Michael Datcher. “Because it is made up material people don’t respect it as a way to talk about the real world. They don’t look at it as a way to learn something about the real world, as opposed to a book of theory…people want to be entertained, rather than learn something about the past or themselves.”

This Saturday, Datcher is bringing his newest work to Albuquerque thanks to 516 ARTS and Outpost Performance Space. AMERICUS is a uniquely American story swaddled in Egyptian mythology and set in East Louis circa 1917...