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Exxposé »
What lies beneath the hood of the world’s largest oil company?
May 2012 by Bryan Burrough
Friedrichsburg Revisited »
The German novel, penned in 1867 and set in the just-settled Hill Country hamlet, gets a modern translation.
May 2012 by Don Graham
Like a Writer »
Bizarre similes pour forth from a Dallas debut novelist’s fingers like wine from a bottomless bottle that is also missing its cork.
May 2012 by Jeff Salamon
The Ron Paul Effect »
In the forthcoming Ron Paul’s rEVOLution (Broadside Books, $26.99), the journalist Brian Doherty takes an up-close look at the libertarian Texas congressman, from Paul’s initial immersion in the works of the Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek right up to the recent Republican primaries, when Doherty hit the campaign trail as a journalist. In a phone and email interview from his office in Los Angeles, Doherty, a senior editor at the libertarian magazine Reason who makes no bones about his admiration for Paul, discussed Paul’s place in the ongoing nomination battle.
May 2012 Interview by Jeff Salamon
Secret Agent Man »
A retired Border Patrol officer remembers his time on the beat.
April 2012 by David Romo
The Gay Case »
How two Texans took a gay rights case to the Supreme Court.
March 2012 by Sanford Levinson
Violence Is Golden »
James Carlos Blake’s latest novel explores the sins of the grandfather.
February 2012 by John Phillip Santos
The Man Who Knows Too Much »
Cyberpunk pioneer Bruce Sterling speculates that the worst is yet to come.
January 2012 by Edward Nawotka
Father Knows West »
Is it time to revisit Larry McMurtry’s Berrybender Narratives?
December 2011 by Don Graham
Dagoberto Gilb Returns to Writing After His Stroke »
Before the End, After the Beginning, the author's first collection since his stroke, draws on his personal crisis for inspiration.
November 2011 by Christopher Kelly
Black Like Him »
Fifty years after it first electrified the nation, Dallas native John Howard Griffin’s classic book still has something to tell us.
November 2011 by Annette Gordon-Reed
Sacred Mistrust »
In this memoir of a Pentecostal childhood, religious zeal and illicit love nearly tear a family apart.
October 2011 by Susan Wood
Freddie’s Song »
Is the Freddie Steinmark saga the greatest story ever oversold?
September 2011 by Bryan Curtis
An Excerpt From The Homesick Texan Cookbook »
Blogger Lisa Fain’s new cookbook.
September 2011 by Lisa Fain
Gunfire and Brimstone »
Fort Worth preacher J. Frank Norris paved the way for today’s televangelists. But he’s probably best known as the defendant in a wild 1927 murder trial.
August 2011 by Don Graham
Sink or Swim »
In an excerpt from the new novel The Gap Year, a single mom prepares to send her only daughter off to college. Guess which one is a wreck.
July 2011 by Sarah Bird
No Handicap »
Babe Didrikson’s pioneering career as a woman golfer.
July 2011 by Prudence Mackintosh
Read Aloud
Author Sarah Bird discusses her book, The Gap Year.
July 2011
The Book of Elmer »
Weighing the legacy of West Texas's patron saint of cowboy literature.
June 2011 by Don Graham
Crockett Science »
A new Crockett biography weighs in on how Davy died.
May 2011 by James L. Haley
A Conversation With Stephen Harrigan
One of Texas’s most acclaimed writers talks about his new novel, his process, and what he really thinks about e-readers.
May 2011 Produced by Pamela Hastings
Swamp Think »
Joe R. Lansdale has made a career out of a hard-boiled vision of East Texas.
April 2011 by Steven L. Davis
Pretty Ugly »
Why a lavish two-volume attack on the border fence misses the mark.
March 2011 by Jim Lewis
Future Imperfect »
Stratfor’s George Friedman peers into the future.
February 2011 by Daniel W. Drezner
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