Don Graham

Oct 11, 2013 — By Don Graham

The good, the bad, and the most self-indulgent of this year’s JFK assassination books.

Feb 12, 2013 — By Don Graham

A new book looks at the links between Cynthia Ann Parker and an iconic John Ford western.

Jan 21, 2013 — By Don Graham

The German novel, penned in 1867 and set in the just-settled Hill Country hamlet, gets a modern translation.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Don Graham

Indian Creek native Katherine Anne Porter is the finest author ever to come out of Texas. But only recently has her home state stopped writing her off.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Don Graham

What did Graham Greene observe about crossing the border into Mexico in 1938? Would you believe Molly Ivins was born in California? Here are my picks for the fifty greatest literary moments in Texas, plus a roster of leading lights who are from here—and some who aren't.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Don Graham

Dobie, Bedichek, and Webb were the leading Texas writers and intellectuals of their age. But as ribald raconteurs, they were ahead of their time.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Don Graham

Cormac McCarthy’s latest is bloody good.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Don Graham

An ambitious, sometimes bewildering, debut novel about Czech Texas.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Don Graham

While some Texas-born writers had to leave home to do their best work, for John Graves the reverse was true.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Don Graham

Why Peter Bogdanovich filmed in black and white, who discovered Cybill Shepherd, which onetime soap opera diva read for the role of Jacy, and other secrets of the making of The Last Picture Show .

Jan 20, 2013 — By Don Graham

Forty years after its publication, Horseman, Pass By is still one of Larry McMurtry's finest novels—and as groundbreaking as J. D. Salinger's masterpiece.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Don Graham

Our selections for some of the best contemporary Texas books.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Don Graham

A Prince of a Fellow

Jan 20, 2013 — By Don Graham

Does anyone outside of Texas care about Texas history? H. W. Brands hopes so, and he's not the only one.

Dec 1, 2011 — By Don Graham

Is it time to revisit Larry McMurtry’s Berrybender Narratives?

Jul 31, 2011 — By Don Graham

Fort Worth preacher J. Frank Norris paved the way for today’s televangelists. But he’s probably best known as the defendant in a wild 1927 murder trial.

May 31, 2011 — By Don Graham

Texas Christian University Press, long the hub of Elmer Kelton hagiography, has just released its newest paterikon, Elmer Kelton: Essays and Memories ($19.95), a collection of pieces written in honor of the beloved West Texas author, who died nearly two years ago. Among the memories are those of the Reverend…

Aug 31, 2010 — By Don Graham

Larry McMurtry’s new memoir plays it close to the vest.

Mar 1, 2010 — By Patricia McConnico, Stephen Harrigan, Don Graham, Skip Hollandsworth, Brian D. Sweany and Pamela Colloff

63 things that all Texans must do before they die.

Jun 30, 2008 — By Don Graham

Cormac McCarthy’s ubiquity problem.

Jun 30, 2007 — By Don Graham

What to do about those controversial statues on the University of Texas at Austin campus.

Nov 1, 2005 — By Don Graham

The famously crotchety writer’s hate-love relationship with Texas.

Apr 30, 2005 — By Don Graham

The awful truth about The Liars’ Club.

Feb 1, 2005 — By Don Graham

One riot, one Ranger, one much-maligned historian: rereading Walter Prescott Webb.

Nov 1, 2004 — By Don Graham

To read a Patricia Highsmith novel is to suspend one’s moral judgments. She irresistibly persuades us to side with killers and other amoral characters.

Jul 31, 2004 — By Don Graham

Growing up in segregated Collin County, I was oblivious to the impact of Jim Crow—until I read John Howard Griffin's American classic.

Dec 1, 2003 — By Don Graham

So much is at stake that we almost—almost—believe the release date of Disney's epic-to-be was delayed from Christmas Day to April for the reasons the studio claims. But given the way historical movies usually turn out, can you blame us for smirking?

Sep 30, 2003 — By Don Graham

Suzan-Lori Parks gets the culture and cadence of West Texas right, sort of; Annie Proulx doesn't.

Apr 30, 2003 — By Don Graham

Fifteen years after Larry McMurtry announced he was through writing novels, he shows no sign of letting up. For this we should be thankful.

Jan 1, 2003 — By Don Graham

No one took the literature of Texas or the Southwest seriously until J. Frank Dobie put it, and us, on the map.

Dec 1, 2002 — By Don Graham

Did Richard King cheat his partner's heirs out of a chunk of the King Ranch nearly 120 years ago? He may have—and if the Texas Supreme Court permits Chapman v. King Ranch, Inc., to go to trial, the past could come back to haunt the state's most storied spread.

Apr 30, 2002 — By Don Graham

Master of the Senate, Robert Caro's third volume on the life of Lyndon Johnson, is an exhaustive study of power, persuasion, and private parts.

Feb 1, 2002 — By Don Graham

Rumor has it that director Ron Howard and screenwriter John Sayles are coming to Austin this spring to make a $100 million movie about the Alamo. It may be too much to ask that they get Texas' defining battle right (since no one knows what really happened), but I've got my fingers crossed—and a few friendly words of advice.

Jan 1, 2002 — By Don Graham

What's so funny about an oilman, a rancher, a golfer, and a carnival hobo? Watch the following top ten funniest Texas movies to find out why these main characters (and others) are so hilarious.

Jul 31, 2001 — By Don Graham

A memoir conjures up Donald Barthelme—and sheds light on his talented siblings.

May 31, 2001 — By Don Graham

Larry McMurty's latest.

Apr 1, 2001 — By Don Graham

Aaron Latham's new novel about a cowboy Camelot gets lost in the bull.

Mar 1, 2001 — By Don Graham

. . . And the Earth Did Not Devour Him.

Feb 1, 2001 — By Don Graham

The Perfect Sonya.

Dec 1, 2000 — By Don Graham

Confessions of a Washed-up Sportswriter (Including Various Digressions About Sex, Crime, and Other Hobbies.)

Nov 1, 2000 — By Don Graham

Strange Peaches.

Sep 30, 2000 — By Don Graham

Alpaca

Sep 30, 2000 — By Don Graham

The problem with Mary Karr's latest confessional memoir, Cherry, is that she won't stop confessing.

Aug 31, 2000 — By Don Graham

Blood Meridian.

Jul 31, 2000 — By Don Graham

Sam Chamberlain's My Confession.

Jun 30, 2000 — By Don Graham

My First Thirty Years.

May 31, 2000 — By Don Graham

The Time It Never Rained.

Apr 30, 2000 — By Don Graham

Rules for movies about music.

Apr 1, 2000 — By Don Graham

The Log of a Cowboy.

Mar 1, 2000 — By Don Graham

A flood, a fire, a car accident, a murder, and of course, a restaging of the battle for Texas’ independence: scenes from the making of The Alamo.