Books
January 27, 2016
Darkness on the Edge of Town
How the kindest, gentlest family man in Nacogdoches began writing some of the creepiest, grisliest fiction in the country.
Books
Reviews, profiles, and interviews that capture the diverse voices adding to Texas’s rich literary tradition
Arts & Entertainment
December 23, 2015
How J. Frank Dobie Got His Groove Back
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
Arts & Entertainment
December 23, 2015
The Checklist
What to watch, read, listen to, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Arts & Entertainment
December 23, 2015
Extreme Tenacity
X Games medalist Colten Moore isn’t giving up on the sport that killed his brother.
Arts & Entertainment
December 23, 2015
Los Miserables
Three academics plumb the rags-to-rags stories that have long been excluded from our state mythology.
The Daily Post
December 17, 2015
Ted Cruz Erotic Fan Fiction Is A Thing You Can Buy And Read Right Now
Oh, what a time to be alive.
Books
December 11, 2015
Bestselling Author Shea Serrano Is Live Tweeting Giving Out $100 Bills To Fast Food Workers
The bestselling author of 'The Rap Yearbook' is sharing his success with fast food workers and thrift store customers.
Arts & Entertainment
November 18, 2015
The Checklist
A look at what to read, hear, and watch this month in order to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Arts & Entertainment
November 18, 2015
The Google of Texas
Answers to all of Texas's most pressing questions can be found in the brand-new edition of the Texas Almanac.
Books
November 18, 2015
Ripped From the Bloodlines
James Lee Burke may split his time between Louisiana and Montana, but he's never really left Texas.
Arts & Entertainment
October 21, 2015
Voice of the Pines
In search of the mysterious, absurdist, and lyrical East Texas writer William Goyen.
Arts & Entertainment
October 21, 2015
The Checklist
A look at what to hear, read, watch, and see this month in order to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Books
September 17, 2015
The Checklist
A look at what to read, watch, and listen to this (wonderfully jam-packed) month in order to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Books
August 19, 2015
Brave Heart
Brené Brown explains why being vulnerable is the toughest and worthiest thing you can do.
Arts & Entertainment
August 19, 2015
The Checklist
What to hear, read, watch, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Arts & Entertainment
August 13, 2015
All the Way With LBJ
As five new books make clear, our thirty-sixth president refuses to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Travel & Outdoors
July 23, 2015
The Checklist
What to read, hear, watch, and look at to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Books
July 6, 2015
Hood County Residents Try to Ban LGBT Children’s Books From Library
The two books aim to educate young readers on gender, sexuality, and LGBT history.
Books
May 8, 2015
The Checklist
What to read, hear, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Books
April 13, 2015
Attica Locke’s Empire
The author of Black Water Rising talks about Houston neighborhoods, writing for a hot TV show, and her dad’s run for mayor.
Books
March 23, 2015
Cover to Cover
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
The Daily Post
March 2, 2015
George R. R. Martin Gave the Texas A&M Library Its Five Millionth Book
That’s very nice of you, George. Now where is Book Six???
Books
February 12, 2015
The White Stuff
The secret history of cotton, the crop that transformed the global economy—and kept Texans in poverty for generations.
Books
January 15, 2015
Sandra Cisneros Sold Her House on Guenther Street
Her famously colorful home is now somebody else’s.
Books
November 23, 2014
Texas Man Treasures Finds in Updike’s Trash
Ian McEwan signed books this fall at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, where he was presented the glasses and envelope containing a 1953 issue of The Harvard Lampoon, at his right. (Photo credit Daulton Venglar)MANCHACA, Tex.
Books
October 20, 2014
They Spoke Volumes
We asked writers around the state a series of bookish questions. Here are a few of their answers.
Books
October 20, 2014
Against the Canon
What are the best Texas books ever written? Here’s my list—now let the sparks fly.
Books
October 13, 2014
Small in the Saddle
Larry McMurtry, Bill Wittliff, and Jeff Guinn turn to familiar turf—the Old West—to challenge old-school readers.
Books
September 12, 2014
The Hard Stuff
An exclusive excerpt from Domingo Martinez’s new memoir, “My Heart Is a Drunken Compass,” in which a drink is always close at hand and the battle against the bottle is never fully won.
Books
August 5, 2014
Dallas Flambé
With its tight prose, waitress heroine, and stinging insight into urban life, Merritt Tierce’s debut marks an exciting turn in Texas literature.
Books
July 10, 2014
The First Resident of Belken County
When the National Book Critics Circle gave the Austin writer Rolando Hinojosa its lifetime achievement award, it was simply taking note of what many of us had known for years.
Books
June 5, 2014
Race and Relations
Journalist Chris Tomlinson delves into the parallel histories of two Texas families with the same last name—one black, one white.
News & Politics
April 21, 2014
The Rough Guide to Frackistan
Energy reporter Russell Gold gives us a reason to give a frak about fracking.
The Daily Post
April 8, 2014
Brittney Griner’s Memoir Drops Today
The former Waco basketball star now adds "author" to her list of impressive accomplishments.
Books
April 8, 2014
The Rough Guide to Frackistan
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, should rank alongside the smartphone as this young century’s most transformative technology. Over the past decade, so much oil and gas has been unlocked from previously impervious rock that America’s generation-long energy crisis has all but ended. Instead of a crippling strategic vulnerability—dependence on foreign
Books
April 2, 2014
Ted Cruz Just Signed A Book Deal, Y’all
The rookie-sensation Senator who's totally not thinking about running for President just signed a deal to write his first book.
Books
February 11, 2014
Coming to Our Census
Former state demographer Steve H. Murdock is back, with a book that should be required reading for all 26,060,796 of us.
Books
January 22, 2014
Bexar County’s Library on a Cloud
BiblioTech, one of the country's first all-digital public libraries, aims to reach more readers by hosting their entire collection on the cloud. Patrons may choose from 18,000 digital titles and can check out Kindles, too.
Books
January 9, 2014
Here Comes Hurricane Leila
Novelist Leila Meacham hopes for another best-seller with the forthcoming Somerset, a prequel to her megahit debut novel, Roses.
Arts & Entertainment
December 17, 2013
The Bum Steer Catalog
Bum Steers is an attitude! Bum Steers is a lifestyle! And, best of all, now Bum Steers is a chance to shop!
Books
December 17, 2013
The Literary Journal and the Small Press Live On, in Austin
It's supposed to be a bad time for print. Yet new literary journals and small presses keep cropping up in the state's capital.
Books
December 10, 2013
Five Texas Books to Give for the Holidays
Our guide to some idiosyncratic books with local connections for every personality on your gift list.
Books
October 25, 2013
5 Books That Make the Texas Book Festival Thoroughly Native
And a list of all of the Texas-related books and Texas-born authors featured at the festival.
The Daily Post
October 15, 2013
Read State: Will Sheff of Okkervil River
Curious about the reading habits of Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff? Read on.
Books
October 11, 2013
The Class of ’63
The good, the bad, and the most self-indulgent of this year’s JFK assassination books.
Books
July 8, 2013
Back in the Saddle Again
Novelist James Carlos Blake, who has been compared to Cormac McCarthy, returns to his prolific writing pace, releasing two books in less than a year.