Books

September 29, 2016

Why Have Texas Prisons Banned Thousands Of Books?

Over 11,000 titles are banned from Texas prisons, often based on passages taken out of context.

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Art|

September 21, 2016

The Checklist

What to read, listen to, watch, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.

September 15, 2016

True Western

Paulette Jiles wasn't born in Texas, but she started writing novels set here as fast as she could.

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September 14, 2016

Dallas Is Regulating “Little Free Libraries” For Some Reason

The popular outdoor ”take-a-book, leave-a-book” displays face new restrictions in Big D.

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True Crime|

August 24, 2016

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

August 24, 2016

The Checklist

What to read, listen to, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.

Art|

August 24, 2016

Dream Life

The incandescent unreality of Rocky Schenck is on display in the photographer's second collection.

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August 24, 2016

Empire of the Perfect Pass

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

July 20, 2016

Tales of the City

Why do so few novelists write about Houston?

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Film & TV|

July 20, 2016

The Checklist

What to read, listen to, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.

June 22, 2016

Mission Admonished

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.

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June 22, 2016

The Checklist

What to read, watch, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.

June 22, 2016

Terms of Endearment

How I came to love Larry McMurtry.

By Brian D. Sweany

June 22, 2016

McMurtry’s Best

Lonesome Dove aside, here are the indispensable titles every Texan should have on his or her bookshelf.

By Mark Busby

June 22, 2016

The Minor Regional Novelist

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.

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June 7, 2016

Texas Author Accused Of Plagiarizing Material In His Debut Novel

Austin-based B. Mitchell Cator seems to have lifted material from other writers, including Texas Monthly's Skip Hollandsworth.

By Abby Johnston

May 26, 2016

The Checklist

What to read, watch, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.

Film & TV|

May 16, 2016

Watch The Trailer For ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,’ Starring Vin Diesel, Steve Martin, and Kristen Stewart

The scathing cultural satire comes to the big screen under the direction of two-time Academy Award winner Ang Lee.

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April 20, 2016

Interview With a Vampire Writer

Justin Cronin on Texas, our toxic environment, and the long-awaited finale to his best-selling science-fiction trilogy.

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April 20, 2016

The Checklist

What to read, watch, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.

April 10, 2016

The Making of The Little Red Book

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

April 5, 2016

Lonesome Dove Reunion Proves That the Three-Decade-Old Mini-Series Is Timeless

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

April 4, 2016

Murders in the Night

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.

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February 24, 2016

The Checklist

What to watch, read, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.

The Daily Post|

January 28, 2016

Kent Finlay, Dreamer

An exclusive excerpt from the forthcoming book by Jenni Finlay and Brian T. Atkinson.

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January 27, 2016

Unidentified Scholarly Subject

Whitley Strieber’s academic communion takes shape.

By Robyn Ross

January 27, 2016

The Checklist

What to watch, read, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.

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.

By Eric Benson

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

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December 23, 2015

The Checklist

What to watch, read, listen to, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.

December 23, 2015

Extreme Tenacity

X Games medalist Colten Moore isn’t giving up on the sport that killed his brother.

By Paul Knight

December 23, 2015

Los Miserables

Three academics plumb the rags-to-rags stories that have long been excluded from our state mythology.

By Michael Ennis

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.

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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.

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November 18, 2015

The Checklist

A look at what to read, hear, and watch this month in order to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.

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.

By Robyn Ross

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.

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October 21, 2015

Voice of the Pines

In search of the mysterious, absurdist, and lyrical East Texas writer William Goyen.

By Karen Olsson

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.

Art|

September 17, 2015

How the West Was Shot

Behind the lens with photographer Laura Wilson.

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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.

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September 17, 2015

Self-defense for Sheep

A few lessons from retired Navy SEAL Clint Emerson.

By Brantley Hargrove

September 14, 2015

10 Writers to Watch (and Read)

Move over, J. Frank Dobie and Larry McMurtry. Texas has entered a new golden age of literature—and these are a few of its standout voices.

August 19, 2015

Brave Heart

Brené Brown explains why being vulnerable is the toughest and worthiest thing you can do.

By Francesca Mari

August 19, 2015

The Checklist

What to hear, read, watch, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.

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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.

By Michael Ennis

Travel & Outdoors|

July 23, 2015

The Checklist

What to read, hear, watch, and look at to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.

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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.

By Sam Hart