The Culture
November 23, 2016
The Checklist
What to watch, listen to, and read this month to achieve maximum Texas literacy.
Books
Reviews, profiles, and interviews that capture the diverse voices adding to Texas’s rich literary tradition
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October 31, 2016
One for the Books
A former first lady on her lifelong love of all things bookish.
Books
October 19, 2016
The Checklist
What to watch, listen to, and read this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Books
October 19, 2016
Ben Fountain’s Long Hollywood Talk
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.
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.
Art
September 21, 2016
The Checklist
What to read, listen to, watch, and look at this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Books
September 15, 2016
True Western
Paulette Jiles wasn't born in Texas, but she started writing novels set here as fast as she could.
Books
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.
True Crime
August 24, 2016
The Yes Man
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
Books
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.
Books
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.
Books
July 20, 2016
Tales of the City
Why do so few novelists write about Houston?
Film & TV
July 20, 2016
The Checklist
What to read, listen to, and watch this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Books
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.
Books
June 22, 2016
The Checklist
What to read, watch, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Books
June 22, 2016
Terms of Endearment
How I came to love Larry McMurtry.
Books
June 22, 2016
McMurtry’s Best
Lonesome Dove aside, here are the indispensable titles every Texan should have on his or her bookshelf.
Books
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.
Books
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.
Books
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.
Books
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.
Books
April 20, 2016
The Checklist
What to read, watch, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
Books
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.
Books
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.
Arts & Entertainment
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.
Arts & Entertainment
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.
Books
January 27, 2016
Unidentified Scholarly Subject
Whitley Strieber’s academic communion takes shape.
Arts & Entertainment
January 27, 2016
The Checklist
What to watch, read, and listen to this month to achieve maximum Texas cultural literacy.
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.
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.
Art
September 17, 2015
How the West Was Shot
Behind the lens with photographer Laura Wilson.
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
September 17, 2015
Self-defense for Sheep
A few lessons from retired Navy SEAL Clint Emerson.
Books
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.
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.