
What’s So Iconic About Texas?
To mark Texas Monthly’s 50th year, we've rounded up stories of the characters, places, and institutions that have shaped our great state for the past half century.
To mark Texas Monthly’s 50th year, we've rounded up stories of the characters, places, and institutions that have shaped our great state for the past half century.
I smoked marijuana all day every day for several years. It took me almost a year to quit—and now I wonder if I’ll ever get straight.
Only in Texas could crime stories contain such characters as a murderous cheer mom, a fraudulent fruitcake accountant, and a polo shirt–wearing bandit. Throughout the years, these criminals and more have found their bizarre, macabre, and even humorous true tales told within our pages.
Two self-styled Texas soldiers of fortune engineered one of the more bizarre jailbreaks in history. Here’s how it happened.
Longtime Marfa businesswoman Emma Feld Mallan, photographed for the March 1999 story “Townsfolk.”
Bill Broyles—now best known as a Hollywood screenwriter—remembers the magazine’s first issue.
Since 1973, Texas Monthly has been a proud home for our state’s literary luminaries and intrepid investigators.