If you’re new to the state, there’s a good chance that you snickeringly regard the phrase “Texas literature” as a contradiction in terms. Well, wise up, wise guy: Texans have been writing memorable books about their state for a long time. So if you have some questions about the city you’ve
Oh, the endless arguments about Texas music. But don’t feel the need to master it—no one really can. Instead, here are ten songs to help you hold your own at almost any party.
A guide to three great Texas museums.
Having grown up on the South Side of San Antonio, I know that the Spurs aren’t just a team, they’re a way of life. To show my support, I did what any fan would do: make like Bashō and pen five haikus, one for every NBA title.
An ode to the national sport of Texas.
Born and bred in Houston, the 33-year-old tour de force is the world’s greatest performer—and arguably its most famous Texan.
Roll over, Jake Owen, and tell Brett Eldredge the news: Maddie & Tae are fed up with Nashville’s “bro country” formula.
Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson, and their near-identical path to Oscar glory.
Becky Hammon didn’t get hired as the Spurs’ assistant coach because she’s a woman. She got the job for the same reason everyone gets a job with the Spurs: to keep the team winning.
A memorable evening with James and Curtis McMurtry, the son and grandson of Texas’s most-beloved living author.
The Flower Man House, RIP.
Festival managing director Roland Swenson reflects on a difficult year.
Twenty-year-old Hayden Pedigo is making the most innovative, audacious music in the country. So why is he still in Amarillo?
The secret history of cotton, the crop that transformed the global economy—and kept Texans in poverty for generations.
Half a century ago, Terry Daniels was an SMU undergrad majoring in political science who had taken an interest in boxing. Then he found himself in the ring with the heavyweight champion of the world.
Advice for Tiger’s new swing coach.
No shortage of Texans have been popping up on year-end lists — from veterans like Spoon and Miranda Lambert to relative newcomers like Austin’s Shakey Graves and Denton’s Sarah Jaffe. And while it is clearly too early to guess who might wind up making
A fond look back at 16 Texans—and three beloved Texas animals—who died in 2014.
Margaret Brown’s new documentary, The Great Invisible, delves into the human suffering experienced in the wake of the BP oil spill.
Ryan Bingham bares his crazy heart.
Filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe discusses “Evolution of a Criminal,” a riveting work of self-examination.
Goodbye to Glen Garden.
Austin concert posters.
Ian McEwan signed books this fall at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, where he was presented the glasses and envelope containing a 1953 issue of The Harvard Lampoon, at his right. (Photo credit Daulton Venglar)MANCHACA, Tex.
Rooster Teeth’s Cinematic Ambitions.
East Texas's fine Aeolian-Skinner organs will pipe up this week during the East Texas Pipe Organ Festival.
How a little-known Houston singer, songwriter, and guitarist named Goree Carter invented rock and roll.
We asked writers around the state a series of bookish questions. Here are a few of their answers.
What are the best Texas books ever written? Here’s my list—now let the sparks fly.
Larry McMurtry, Bill Wittliff, and Jeff Guinn turn to familiar turf—the Old West—to challenge old-school readers.
Alejandro Rose-Garcia—formerly best known as the character, the Swede, on NBC's "Friday Night Lights"—wants to yank fans around with his second album, “And the War Came," an unpredictable mix of solo ballads and louder, multi-instrumental music.
Lee Ann Womack became a star the old-fashioned Nashville way. Now she’s ready to be an artist on her own terms.
An exclusive excerpt from Domingo Martinez’s new memoir, “My Heart Is a Drunken Compass,” in which a drink is always close at hand and the battle against the bottle is never fully won.
A conversation with quarterback Bryce Petty of the defending Big 12 champion Baylor Bears.
Remembering Johnny Winter.
BuzzFeed loves Texas.
Say what you want about their crumbling $60 million high school stadium. The people of Allen would build it all over again.
Some overdue recognition for Manuel Donley, Tejano’s first rock star.
And the Longhorns head football coach is ready to get out there and play ball.
It was just last year—amid spectacular losses and dramatic resignations—that the University of Texas saw its sports program go up in flames. As the new athletics director knows, a return to glory now rides on one person: him.
With its tight prose, waitress heroine, and stinging insight into urban life, Merritt Tierce’s debut marks an exciting turn in Texas literature.
When the National Book Critics Circle gave the Austin writer Rolando Hinojosa its lifetime achievement award, it was simply taking note of what many of us had known for years.
The outlaw singer-songwriter returns.
Spoon gets ready to take its new album to the top of the charts.
The "Live Music Capital of the World" is also a live music venue cemetery. The University of Texas-area bar Hole in the Wall is an exception.
Richard Linklater on Boyhood, Bernie, and the disappearing indie landscape.
Not only has Art Briles made Baylor’s football program successful, he’s made it hip.
How Johnny Gimble became one of the greatest fiddlers of all time—and showed me and my son a thing or two about playing music.
Maybe it's because Tim Duncan is the anti-LeBron, but it's pretty clear that during this year's NBA Finals, San Antonio’s team is America’s Team.
“Unwound,” “The Chair,” and “Easy Come, Easy Go” have all sprung from the powerful pen of Dean Dillon.
