Book Review: Reporter Seeks Source
by Debbie Nathan / Posted on | No CommentsAlfredo Corchado’s new journalism memoir, Midnight in Mexico, is a whydunit with a conclusion more compelling than Citizen Kane’s “Rosebud.”
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Book Review: Counting Down the Days
by Amy Gentry / Posted on | No CommentsThe 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.
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Book Review: Staring Down Faith
by E.D. Watson / Posted on | No CommentsThere is no empty jargon in Abyss, no Christian-speak or airy mysticism. Wiman’s prose is elegant and surprising at every turn.
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Abusing Their Religion: Lawrence Wright’s Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & The Prison of Belief
by Robert Leleux / Posted on | No CommentsIn Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief, Lawrence Wright returns to his signature terrain: the outer reaches of religious faith.
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Gourds on Film: All The Labor Documents Austin Band’s Rise and Thrall
by Dan Oko / Posted on | No CommentsA new documentary about The Gourds, explains how a fledgling Austin band hit the virtual big-time via the file-sharing of a larkish cover song.
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