A Look Inside Austin’s New Central Library
Austin's bibliophiles get a slicked up new playpen.
Reviews, profiles, and interviews that capture the diverse voices adding to Texas’s rich literary tradition
Austin's bibliophiles get a slicked up new playpen.
We sat down with our former staffer to talk about his new book, 'American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West'.
Meet one of the most dangerous lawmen in town in an exclusive excerpt from James P. McCollom’s 'The Last Sheriff in Texas: A True Tale of Violence and the Vote.'…
In his new book, Robert D. Hodge explores the Texas borderlands through the seven generations of his ranching family.
Texas writer Attica Locke rolls out the first of a series of books set along Highway 59.
Our executive editor's book, 'The Midnight Assassin,' won the nonfiction book of the year from the Writers' League of Texas.
As the Dallas chain celebrates its sapphire anniversary, a personal look at what the secondhand book store means to people.
If you’re trying to knock off some last minute summer beach time before the special session begins, you might want some fairly light fare of Texas politics and history.
One question with Nicky Drayden, whose debut novel, 'The Prey of Gods,' is out this month.
The best books by and for Texans coming out in June 2017.
In her new book, 'The Warbird,' Tara Copp weaves together tales from Iraq and World War II.
A chat with Jim Magnuson, the founding director of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.
Cornyation, lampooning San Antonio's social elites since 1951.
Stephen Tobolowsky has appeared in hundreds of films, including one of the greatest movies ever made. But these days, he’s thinking—and writing—a lot about God.
Over the past 23 years, the founding director of the Michener Center for Writers has helped launch countless literary careers. Here are a few of the program’s most notable graduates.
In this exclusive excerpt from Stephen Harrigan’s forthcoming history of Texas, the first Spanish conquistadors arrive on our shores, starving, haggard, and in no mood for conquest.
George Saunders explains how writing about Trump voters and writing a novel required the same skill: understanding people you don’t agree with.
Decades later, Abraham Zapruder’s infamous film still holds a strange power over us.
Wes Ferguson has paddled and walked all 87 miles of one of the Hill Country’s most prized waterways. In this exclusive excerpt from The Blanco River, he uncovers a few of its natural secrets.
An excerpt from Proof: Photographs From Four Generations of a Texas Family captures a slice of Texas life.
What to watch, listen to, and read this month to achieve maximum Texas literacy.
A former first lady on her lifelong love of all things bookish.
What to watch, listen to, and read this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
The Dallas author on Steve Martin, Kristen Stewart, Vin Diesel, and the “good weird experience” of watching Ang Lee turn his award-winning novel into a major motion picture.
Over 11,000 titles are banned from Texas prisons, often based on passages taken out of context.
What to read, listen to, watch, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Paulette Jiles wasn't born in Texas, but she started writing novels set here as fast as she could.
The popular outdoor ”take-a-book, leave-a-book” displays face new restrictions in Big D.
He was just a regular kid in South Texas, until a brush with the law propelled Gabriel Cardona into petty crime—and the service of a drug lord rising to power across the Rio Grande. In this exclusive excerpt from Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico’s Most Dangerous Drug Cartel, Dan…
What to read, listen to, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
The incandescent unreality of Rocky Schenck is on display in the photographer's second collection.
Quanah Parker, Stonewall Jackson . . . and Hal Mumme?! Why S.C. Gwynne took a break from historical epics to tell the story of the Texas coach who changed football.
What to read, listen to, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
A new biography takes a hard look at our forty-third president’s foreign policy record, with assessments that often stand in stark contrast with Bush's own verdict on his presidency.
What to read, watch, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Lonesome Dove aside, here are the indispensable titles every Texan should have on his or her bookshelf.
Texas may have inspired Larry McMurtry to become a writer, but there is no writer who has inspired an understanding of Texas quite like Larry McMurtry. At age eighty, our most iconic author still has work to do.
Austin-based B. Mitchell Cator seems to have lifted material from other writers, including Texas Monthly's Skip Hollandsworth.
What to read, watch, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
The scathing cultural satire comes to the big screen under the direction of two-time Academy Award winner Ang Lee.
Justin Cronin on Texas, our toxic environment, and the long-awaited finale to his best-selling science-fiction trilogy.
What to read, watch, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
An excerpt from Harvey Penick: The Life and Wisdom of the Man Who Wrote the Book on Golf by Kevin Robbins reveals how one of golf's greatest minds came to share his knowledge with the world.
The Lonesome Dove Trail and Reunion in Fort Worth brought together cast and crew, who waxed nostalgic on the seminal series and the book that inspired it.
An exclusive excerpt from The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer reveals a forgotten time in Austin history, when a series of brutal, unsolved slayings terrified officials and left them wondering if a madman was on the loose.
What to watch, read, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.