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Including books from Dallas resident Ben Fountain, UT-Michener Center alum Kevin Powers, South Texas native Domingo Martinez, and the legendary LBJ biographer Robert Caro.
October 10, 2012 | by Jeff Salamon
The latest Alamo
chronicler offers a glimpse of his reference library.
Philipp Meyer is impressing the literary world with his second novel, The Son, a multigenerational epic about an oil and ranching dynasty in Texas that is being called the most ambitious Texas novel in years. But how did this East Coast-reared man manage to capture the spirit of the state?
W. K. Stratton's new book, Backyard Brawl, dissects the football feud between the state's two largest universities.
August 1, 2002 | Web Exclusive
A collection of the letters of influential sociologist C. Wright Mills shows that his radical ideas were grounded in his Texas upbringing.
A brutal—and very funny—South Texas memoir by Domingo Martinez.
Retired Border Patrol officer Hipolito Acosta remembers his time on the beat in The Shadow Catcher.
Fifty years after it first electrified the nation, Dallas native John Howard Griffin’s classic book still has something to tell us.
Cyberpunk pioneer Bruce Sterling speculates that the worst is yet to come.