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
By Dan Slater
What to read, listen to, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
By Texas Monthly
The incandescent unreality of Rocky Schenck is on display in the photographer's second collection.
By Jeff Salamon
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.
By Brian D. Sweany
Why do so few novelists write about Houston?
By Mimi Swartz
What to read, listen to, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
By Texas Monthly
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.
By Jeff Salamon
What to read, watch, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
By Texas Monthly
How I came to love Larry McMurtry.
By Brian D. Sweany
Lonesome Dove aside, here are the indispensable titles every Texan should have on his or her bookshelf.
By Mark Busby
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.
By Skip Hollandsworth
Austin-based B. Mitchell Cator seems to have lifted material from other writers, including Texas Monthly's Skip Hollandsworth.
By Abby Johnston
What to read, watch, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
By Texas Monthly
The scathing cultural satire comes to the big screen under the direction of two-time Academy Award winner Ang Lee.
By Dan Solomon
Justin Cronin on Texas, our toxic environment, and the long-awaited finale to his best-selling science-fiction trilogy.
By Jeff Salamon
What to read, watch, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
By Texas Monthly
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.
By Kevin Robbins
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.
By Michael Hoinski
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.
By Skip Hollandsworth
What to watch, read, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
By Texas Monthly
An exclusive excerpt from the forthcoming book by Jenni Finlay and Brian T. Atkinson.
By Christian Wallace
Whitley Strieber’s academic communion takes shape.
By Robyn Ross
What to watch, read, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
By Texas Monthly
How the kindest, gentlest family man in Nacogdoches began writing some of the creepiest, grisliest fiction in the country.
By Eric Benson
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
By Jeff Salamon
What to watch, read, listen to, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
By Texas Monthly
X Games medalist Colten Moore isn’t giving up on the sport that killed his brother.
By Paul Knight
Three academics plumb the rags-to-rags stories that have long been excluded from our state mythology.
By Michael Ennis
Oh, what a time to be alive.
By Dan Solomon
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December 11, 2015
The bestselling author of 'The Rap Yearbook' is sharing his success with fast food workers and thrift store customers.
By Dan Solomon
A look at what to read, hear, and watch this month in order to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
By Texas Monthly
Answers to all of Texas's most pressing questions can be found in the brand-new edition of the Texas Almanac.
By Robyn Ross
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November 18, 2015
James Lee Burke may split his time between Louisiana and Montana, but he's never really left Texas.
By Jeff Salamon
In search of the mysterious, absurdist, and lyrical East Texas writer William Goyen.
By Karen Olsson
A look at what to hear, read, watch, and see this month in order to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
By Texas Monthly
Behind the lens with photographer Laura Wilson.
By Skip Hollandsworth
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September 17, 2015
A look at what to read, watch, and listen to this (wonderfully jam-packed) month in order to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
By Jeff Salamon
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September 17, 2015
A few lessons from retired Navy SEAL Clint Emerson.
By Brantley Hargrove
Brené Brown explains why being vulnerable is the toughest and worthiest thing you can do.
By Francesca Mari
What to hear, read, watch, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
By Jeff Salamon
As five new books make clear, our thirty-sixth president refuses to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
By Michael Ennis
What to read, hear, watch, and look at to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
By Jeff Salamon
The two books aim to educate young readers on gender, sexuality, and LGBT history.
By Sam Hart
What to read, hear, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
By Jeff Salamon
The author of Black Water Rising talks about Houston neighborhoods, writing for a hot TV show, and her dad’s run for mayor.
By Jeff Salamon
When Willie met Scarface.
By Christian Wallace
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
By Texas Monthly and Jeff Salamon
That’s very nice of you, George. Now where is Book Six???
By Dan Solomon
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February 12, 2015
The secret history of cotton, the crop that transformed the global economy—and kept Texans in poverty for generations.
By Michael Ennis
Her famously colorful home is now somebody else’s.
By Dan Solomon