Books
January 23, 2024
The Checklist: Three Books Worth Reading This Month
In this trio of novels, the past and present—or, in one case, the near-future—intertwine in a revealing manner.
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Politics & Policy
July 18, 2023
Texas Is Now a Majority-Minority State. Why Haven’t Our Politics Changed?
Since 2004, non-Hispanic white residents have been outnumbered in Texas. And to the apparent surprise of many, that hasn’t worked out all that well for the Democratic Party.
Sports
June 1, 2023
The Haunting Cross-country Journey of Austin FC Fans’ Uvalde Memorial Banners
Supporters have unfurled the anti–gun violence flags at soccer matches after mass shootings in Texas, Nashville, and Louisville.
Books
July 14, 2022
Sergio Troncoso Is Making Sure That Texas Literature Represents All of Texas
In his latest novel and as president of the Texas Institute of Letters, the Ysleta-raised writer is pushing us to rethink the Lone Star literary canon.
Sports
May 10, 2022
Austin FC and Los Verdes Preserve Latinidad in the Gentrified Capital
In a city famous for its transplants, Austin’s Major League Soccer team has created a space where longtime residents can feel at home.
Books
April 26, 2022
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith Was a Literary Chronicler of Texas’s Borderlands
The award-winning writer and professor, who died April 19 at 93, was often compared to William Faulkner, but that doesn’t tell the whole story.
Books
September 14, 2021
Sandra Cisneros on Bad First Drafts, Staying Hopeful, and Her New Novella
The former San Antonian started writing the story that became ‘Martita, I Remember You’ thirty years ago.
Books
October 14, 2020
Six Good Texas Book Festival Reads
This year’s festival is all-virtual, but its lineup is still all-star, as demonstrated by this trio of recent books from Texas authors.
Books
October 8, 2020
MacArthur Fellow Cristina Rivera Garza Believes That Writing Is an Act of Hope
The Houston author, who blurs boundaries of genre, language, and culture, says she writes in part to imagine a better world.
Books
September 17, 2020
A North Texas Teacher Wanted a Superhero His Latino Students Could Relate to, so He Created One
Hector Rodriguez’s hit comic book series, El Peso Hero, is now set to become a film.
Being Texan
June 16, 2020
A Parent’s Problematic Pandemic Bequest
When my mother died, she left behind hundreds of items that my family might need if civilization goes south. Deciding what to do with them forced me to weigh the demands of the present and the future.
Books
February 5, 2020
The Real Problem With ‘American Dirt’
No, it's not that the author is white.