Elizabeth Black’s The Drowning House Is a Book Gasping For Breath
Black heaps far more gravitas on her characters than they can support; the mysteries fizzle undramatically; and narrator Clare is despicable.
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Data and Darkness: a Conversation with George Saunders
Celebrated short story writer George Saunders was born in Amarillo, Texas, in 1958, and that’s pretty well the extent of his Texas connection. Saunders [...]
Viva Los Traficantes
In 2012, Tucson, AZ removed dozens of ethnic studies books from classrooms. Here are the books by Texas authors.
Archived Soul
I have a confession: I’ve never understood David Foster Wallace, that literary figure of monumental proportions who delighted readers with no small output of [...]
The Business of Education
In the early 1970s, Frank Erwin dominated higher education in the public University of Texas System of colleges and universities. He was a key [...]