Suzanne Winckler

Mar 1, 1991 — By Suzanne Winckler

The Raven’s Bride sheds new light on the scandal that set Tennessee governor Sam Houston on the road to Texas.

Dec 1, 1990 — By Suzanne Winckler

Larry McMurtry returns to the mythic West and spins a thoughtful and touching tale.

Aug 31, 1990 — By Suzanne Winckler

A new assault on Texas’ most cherished myth proves that the Battle of the Alamo is far from over.

Apr 1, 1990 — By Suzanne Winckler

Twenty years after the first Earth Day celebration, environmentalists are once again trying to get Texans interested in saving the planet. There are good reasons why they may once again fail.

Dec 1, 1989 — By Suzanne Winckler

Five beautifully produced books explore the Americas, from anonymous folk art to the great muralists, from revolutionary heroes to a Texas ranching patriarch.

Sep 30, 1989 — By Suzanne Winckler

Larry McMurtry explores the far side of forty in his new novel.

Aug 31, 1989 — By Suzanne Winckler

Dallas novelist C. W. Smith takes a long, hard look at a subject with a painful history.

May 31, 1989 — By Suzanne Winckler

Dave Hickey’s fine short stories are enhanced by the scarcity; Texas expatriate William Humphrey takes on the Cherokees’ Trail of Tears.

Mar 1, 1989 — By Suzanne Winckler

New fiction takes the reader on forays into Louisiana swamps, excursions into smoke-filled Austin honky-tonks, and down life’s highway with a lady trucker

Nov 1, 1988 — By Suzanne Winckler

Dan Jenkins’ latest takes a tough-cookie journalist out of a thirties movie and puts her into a chase through Depression-era Fort Worth; Sarah Glasscock populates her fictional Alpine with a cast of real characters.

Sep 30, 1988 — By Suzanne Winckler

In Anything for Billy, Larry McMurtry trounces the Western myth; Frederick Barthelme, in Two Against One, casts a cold eye on a self-desdtructing marriage.

Aug 31, 1988 — By Suzanne Winckler

It’s Simple: people’s teeth should not chatter in the summer.

Sep 30, 1987 — By Suzanne Winckler

Turn off the AC, stop pretending you’re a reptile, welcome the whooping cranes back. It’s fall!

Feb 1, 1986 — By Suzanne Winckler

Tastes in livestock are as whimsical as tastes in fashion. This year petite is in.

Apr 1, 1985 — By Suzanne Winckler

Okay, so photos of cute kids in fields of bluebonnets aren’t great art. That’s not the point at all.

Apr 1, 1985 — By Suzanne Winckler

After extensive taste tests, our reporter concludes that the best lamb is to be found in our own back yard.

Jan 1, 1985 — By Suzanne Winckler

Working alone at his home in East Texas, Fox Harris is divinely inspired to create towering, fanciful sculptures out of junk.

Sep 30, 1984 — By Suzanne Winckler

The cattle are dying, the grass is gone, the ranchers are selling their land. The center of Texas is in a drought that may be the worst in a hundred years.

Jun 30, 1984 — By Suzanne Winckler

A meditation on the radioactive peril in Juarez.

May 31, 1984 — By Suzanne Winckler

You don’t have to go to the country or the zoo to see wild animals; there are lizards in downtown buildings, gators in the creeks, and deer in the parking lots.

Mar 1, 1984 — By Suzanne Winckler

In five hours on icy roads the author covered 35 miles and discovered the perils of driving in a state that is unprepared for real winter.

Jan 1, 1984 — By Suzanne Winckler

Damming the Rio Grande; cruising the streets of Houston; building the nation's biggest organ; remembering the Alamo.

Aug 31, 1983 — By Suzanne Winckler

Texas highways show their age; Houston punks show their colors; foster parents show they care; A&M shows its macaws; cattle ranchers show their breeding.

May 31, 1983 — By Suzanne Winckler

Meet the ocelot, not as pet, not as fur coat, but in its best role - an elusive remnant of Texas’ wild past.

Mar 1, 1983 — By Suzanne Winckler

Meet some of Texas’ secular latter-day saints: volunteers.

Aug 31, 1982 — By Suzanne Winckler

It looks fragile with its lacy leaves and fragrant flowers. Looks can be deceptive.

Nov 1, 1981 — By Suzanne Winckler

Some people look at the Piney Woods and see paper plates and two-by-fours; others see the last great stands of forest in Texas.

Sep 30, 1981 — By Suzanne Winckler

They’re ugly little things, but you’ve got to respect them.

May 31, 1981 — By Suzanne Winckler

What’s behind this year’s rampant display of wildflowers? The birds and the bees, of course.

Apr 1, 1981 — By Suzanne Winckler

How you can-and why you should-go camping in the middle of the week.

Apr 1, 1981 — By Suzanne Winckler

How you can-and why you should-go camping in the middle of the week.

Apr 1, 1979 — By Michael Ennis and Suzanne Winckler

Houston’s Museum of Fine Art resurrects the genius of Mark Rothko. James Surls tries to answer the tricky question: what is Texas art? Amarillo hosts five pioneers of American photography.