Pray for Sharks

Cuddling up to a thousand pounds of ravenous hunger.

by Stephen Harrigan

The Greatest Experience of Your Life

Climbing the social ladder, and other exercises at Hill Country summer camps.

by Prudence Mackintosh

Under the Rug

Some embarrassing (and perhaps illegal) aspects of Dolph Briscoe’s campaign.

by Harry Hurt III

This Man Loves Car Wrecks More than Anyone Else in the World

For A.O. Pipkin, happiness is a head-on collision he wasn’t in.

by Gregory Curtis

Power Politics

How Coastal State Gas pulled the plug on the Texas consumer.

by Paul Burka

Behind the Lines

by William Broyles

Books

Family Affairs

Coupling takes many forms, as John Updike and Shelby Hearon can tell you.

by Michael Mewshaw

Dining In

Southern Charms

In Charleston they haven’t forgotten one of the things the Old South was famous for: good cooking.

Linda West Eckhardt

Records

Sweet and Low

High-brow music doesn’t have to be high priced.

by W. L. Taitte

Investments

Private Pleasures

Why going public is not the stock market killing it once was.

by The Customer's Man

Citywise

So Rare

Some good reasons for collecting rare books and some good places to do it.

by John Payne

Film

It’s a Steal

Frank Perry used a lot of hackneyed material in his new film, but Neil Simon just ripped off his own.

by Katharine Lowry

Reporter

Texas Monthly Reporter

by Richard West

Contest

Blood and irony.

by Paul Burka

Roar of the Crowd

Touts

Yeast is yeast and fest is fest.