How the Texas heat can sap your energy, dull your intelligence, send you to an early grave, and make you sweat.

Behold the miracles at College Station!

Cancer treatments, windshield wipers that don’t squeak, and other major breakthroughs on the frontiers of science.

What Texas one was, so these wilderness areas still remain.

The loneliness of the long distance bachelor.

Ringside as two dogs—father and son—fight to the death.

Peter Matthiessen writes of men pursuing a dying profession and Philip Roth pursues his critics.

What you can’t see can hurt you.

Fresh fish, and other rarities at seafood restaurants.

Nashville, The Fortune, and Jaws: the perils and rewards of making it big.

Why should Texans worry about New York going broke?

The battles in John Connally’s trial were fought before the jury, but the war may have been won offstage.

A famous conductor tries again with a recording of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, and this time we think he’s got it right.

A title match.

Getting down to brass facts.