Stayton Bonner

  • A Statewide Investigation

    If squinting survivors straggling across the Lone Star state years after some manmade apocalypse wanted to learn about the Texans that came before, they [...] Full Story

  • Leaves of Gold

    They stood lined up against the wall, some beckoning with lusty promises of easy riches. Just sign on the dotted line, they said, and [...] Full Story

  • Fear and Doping in Iraq

    In April 1775, villagers in Lexington, Massachusetts, watched from the road as British soldiers fired on Captain John Parker’s militiamen. Eighty-six years later, crowds [...] Full Story

  • Heartbreak Hotel

    American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment Sasha Abramsky is angry about how many people are locked up in [...] Full Story

  • The Grass is Greener

    Water From Stone In Notes on Virginia, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever [...] Full Story

  • Naked in Galveston

    Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition—the first written account of what is now Texas—has enough bloodletting, cannibalism and equine deaths [...] Full Story

  • Piney Wood Pulp

    Like most of Nacogdoches-based Joe R. Lansdale’s work, Vanilla Ride is set in East Texas. More Flannery O’Connor than Elmer Kelton, East Texas is [...] Full Story

  • Where the Wild Things Are

    The rubber Sasquatch head stared with glassy eyes from atop its pedestal. Beneath its gaze, Bigfoot Conference attendees milled about Tyler’s Caldwell Auditorium. Children [...] Full Story

  • Nuts

    Fourth in an occasional series on recession-era Texas. Locked chains snake through Plainview’s Peanut Corp. of America plant fence, clinking in the wind. Grain [...] Full Story

  • Dateline

    While I waited for the safety instructor, my eyes wandered to a laminated photograph on the wall. Among motivational posters of sunset kayakers and [...] Full Story