John Davidson

Jan 22, 2020 — By John Davidson

The jewel of the Hill Country, my hometown, is lovelier than ever. I just wish more of the natives could afford to stick around and enjoy it. Scenes from a town transformed.

Apr 30, 1999 — By John Davidson

Thirty years ago, Monterrey had no galleries, no museums, and no collectors. Today, it’s an art market that rivals Dallas and Houston.

Mar 1, 1988 — By John Davidson

Judges take his money. Juries buy his bull. And when clients like Pennzoil need a tiger in their tank, they hire Joe Jamail.

Apr 30, 1987 — By John Davidson

In the late seventies, celebrated pianist Val Cliburn inexplicably disappeared from public life. No tortured artist in hiding, Cliburn is having the time of his life sitting around his Fort Worth mansion in his bathrobe.

Feb 1, 1987 — By John Davidson

Anne Bass married one of the richest men in America. With his money and her ambition she became an important cultural force in Fort Worth and New York. Life was perfect. Then her husband left her.

Feb 1, 1985 — By John Davidson

Like any disease, alcoholism has specific symptoms. Like many religions, drying-out programs require abstinence, blind faith, and confession.

Jul 31, 1984 — By John Davidson

Elyse Robins will sell you that gaudy bauble she’s wearing at dinner for only forty. Thousand, that is.

Jun 30, 1984 — By John Davidson

Hondo Crouch went from being a champion athlete to being the sad clown of Texas’s fun-and-games capital.

Apr 30, 1984 — By John Davidson

Civil Wars is armed with first-rate writing; Free Agents is a grab bag of Max Apple’s short fiction; Edisto is a precocious first novel; Group Therapy doesn’t probe deeply enough; Lords of the Earth is yet another Texas oil saga.

Dec 1, 1983 — By John Davidson

The last book by native Texan William Goyen, Arcadio is a weird and wonderful fable about a search for self-acceptance and peace.

Apr 30, 1983 — By John Davidson

Tom Lea, the grand old man of Texas painting, grew up among giants. No wonder he always used a big canvas.

Mar 1, 1983 — By John Davidson

The long afternoons of the best friend the rich women of Houston have ever had.

Mar 1, 1982 — By John Davidson

Hugh Roy Cullen found the oil and made one of Houston’s great fortunes; now his grandson is spending his inheritance like there is no tomorrow, and suing for more.

Sep 30, 1981 — By John Davidson

Once the Hill Country meant small towns and Spartan values; now it’s ranchettes and easy living.

Jun 30, 1981 — By John Davidson

Archbishop Patrick Flores acts like a country priest, but he has a tough job: he is the most powerful Catholic clergyman in Texas, and perhaps the most powerful Mexican American as well.

Aug 31, 1979 — By John Davidson

Two wetbacks from Mexico inherit the legacy of all immigrants—grueling labor, low pay, and a bleak existence on the edge of the American dream.

Dec 1, 1978 — By John Davidson

Four wetbacks are trying to get to San Antonio. The Border Patrol is trying to stop them.

Sep 30, 1977 — By John Davidson

Across the river and into the brush; an eyewitness account of the journey of two wetbacks.

May 31, 1977 — By John Davidson

Burning a candle a day keeps the hexes away.

Apr 1, 1977 — By John Davidson

Every night at Ben Taub Hospital’­s emergency room is a night of the living dead.