Reviews, profiles, and interviews that capture the diverse voices adding to Texas’s rich literary tradition
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.
Why do so few novelists write about Houston?
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.
How I came to love Larry McMurtry.
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.
An exclusive excerpt from the forthcoming book by Jenni Finlay and Brian T. Atkinson.
Whitley Strieber’s academic communion takes shape.
What to watch, read, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
How the kindest, gentlest family man in Nacogdoches began writing some of the creepiest, grisliest fiction in the country.
In 1975 the estate of J. Frank Dobie (1888–1964) established an endowment that would allow the University of Texas Press to keep his books in print for decades to come. Forty years later, the arrangement is still in place, and the press annually sells thousands of copies of
What to watch, read, listen to, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
X Games medalist Colten Moore isn’t giving up on the sport that killed his brother.
Three academics plumb the rags-to-rags stories that have long been excluded from our state mythology.
Oh, what a time to be alive.
The bestselling author of 'The Rap Yearbook' is sharing his success with fast food workers and thrift store customers.
A look at what to read, hear, and watch this month in order to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Answers to all of Texas's most pressing questions can be found in the brand-new edition of the Texas Almanac.
James Lee Burke may split his time between Louisiana and Montana, but he's never really left Texas.
In search of the mysterious, absurdist, and lyrical East Texas writer William Goyen.
A look at what to hear, read, watch, and see this month in order to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Behind the lens with photographer Laura Wilson.
A look at what to read, watch, and listen to this (wonderfully jam-packed) month in order to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
A few lessons from retired Navy SEAL Clint Emerson.
Brené Brown explains why being vulnerable is the toughest and worthiest thing you can do.
What to hear, read, watch, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
As five new books make clear, our thirty-sixth president refuses to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
What to read, hear, watch, and look at to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
The two books aim to educate young readers on gender, sexuality, and LGBT history.
What to read, hear, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
The author of Black Water Rising talks about Houston neighborhoods, writing for a hot TV show, and her dad’s run for mayor.
When Willie met Scarface.
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
That’s very nice of you, George. Now where is Book Six???
The secret history of cotton, the crop that transformed the global economy—and kept Texans in poverty for generations.
Her famously colorful home is now somebody else’s.
