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- Review
- Contributing writer Emily DePrang unpacks Austin novelist Amanda Eyre Ward’s new short-story collection, Love Stories in this Town.
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- Review
- Contributing writer Steven G. Kellman considers philosopher Peter Singer's call to alms.
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- Review
- Tom Palaima wades into the deep end of Dan Baum’s Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans.
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- Review
- Dave Richards reviews The Preemption War: When Federal Bureaucracies Trump Local Juries by Thomas O. McGarity.
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- Don Graham considers novelist Adam Braver’s treatment of November 22, 1963.
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- A Bimusical Mind
- Where the Ox Does Not Plow: A Mexican American Ballad by Manuel Peña
Sarah Wimer examines Peña’s “autobiographical ethnography.” - Comments (2)
- Behind Every Great President...
- White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters by Robert Schlesinger
Josh Rosenblatt considers the presidential wordsmiths hired to toil in obscurity, constructing phrases for which others will be remembered. - Comments (0)
- The Water Front
- Water in Texas: An Introduction, by Andrew Sansom
Texas Water Atlas, by Lawrence E. Estaville and Richard A. Earl
Two new books lay the groundwork for sane water management in Texas, but only if legislators dive in. - Comments (2)
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