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South Africa’s high crime rate inspires novelist

JOHANNESBURG – Novelist Angela Makholwa’s fascination with South Africa’s violent crime has made her one of the country’s most popular writers. Using sharply drawn characters and ...

DATE: Dec 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Drama leaps off the page and into the news

Amazon-Hachette feud dominated book news this year

DATE: Dec 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Lena Dunham and the uncertain territory of memoir

Best-selling author and “Girls” creator Lena Dunham is, by her own admission, “an unreliable narrator.” With her best-selling essay collection, Not That Kind of Girl, published th...

DATE: Dec 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

New Munro collection contains masterful prose

Family Furnishings (Alfred A. Knopf), by Alice Munro A year after Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for literature and was cited for her mastery of the modern short story, her publi...

DATE: Dec 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Children’s books that belong under the tree

Here are top picks for young bookworms

DATE: Dec 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Tapping the wisdom of weeds

Durango forager pens book on unlikely edibles

DATE: Dec 1, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

A U.S. military novel on honor, duty, depravity

Relocation of Native Americans follows a dark path – with sliver of light

DATE: Dec 1, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Richard Jefferies, rediscovered

Brooke and Terry Tempest Williams to discuss new book project at DAC

DATE: Dec 1, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Local authors become booksellers for a day

Maria’s to host Indies First event

DATE: Nov 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Reading Harry Potter gives clues to brain activity

WASHINGTON – Reading about Harry Potter’s adventures learning to fly his broomstick activates some of the same regions in the brain we use to perceive real people’s actions and intentions. ...

DATE: Nov 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Calling all members of the Legion of Ska

After two decades, brewery releases comic book

DATE: Nov 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Sustained by brief blaze of glory

Jerry Lee Lewis has found the ideal biographer in Rick Bragg

DATE: Nov 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Photos: Thousands take to the streets for ‘No Kings’ march and rally in Durango

Photos: Navajo Trail OpenFriday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Friday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Photos: Durango Fire Protection District opens Station 2

Photos: Hundreds gather to honor fallen Bloomfield Police officer Timothy OntiverosA solemn procession stretched for blocks Monday morning along West Apache Street in Farmington – a display of unity, grief and honor for Bloomfield Police Officer Timothy Ontiveros, 32.About 7 a.m., a large contingent of law enforcement, motorcyclists, friends and grieving family prepared to embark on the motorcade to the 9 a.m. service at the Bloomfield High School football stadium to celebrate the life of the officer.