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Matthew McConaughey Finds Meaning In Taking Off His Shirt In Jeff Nichols’ Mud

At last, Matthew McConaughey has found a movie that makes taking off his shirt meaningful.

Abandon All Hope

Direct Quote: Tinkering the Ivories

Priscilla Rappaport is a master piano builder—a llavierbaumeister.

Book Report: George Packer’s American Autopsy

In his new nonfiction opus The Unwinding, author George Packer ties together the various strands of American decline in a way that no contemporary novelist has managed.

Eye On Texas: 9-Pin Bowling

I grew up in an extended family of bowlers, but once I moved to Texas bowling was pretty much out of my life. While […]

Book Review: Reporter Seeks Source

Alfredo Corchado’s new journalism memoir, Midnight in Mexico, is a whydunit with a conclusion more compelling than Citizen Kane’s “Rosebud.”

Postcards: Hook, Line and Sinker

Officers from the Zapata County sheriff’s department, Border Patrol and Texas Parks & Wildlife told anglers, “We can’t help you once you cross into Mexico.”

Sighting in with the NRA

I expected a tea party rally with heavy security. Or at least an information booth on outfitting your bunker for the coming race wars. But no. The NRA exhibits were nerdy good times for people who think guns are interesting.

Book Review: Counting Down the Days

The second biggest surprise in Owen Egerton’s new book is that during the apocalypse, an army of nutria will rise from Lady Bird Lake and kill us all.