American Ideas
by Tom Palaima / Posted on | No CommentsIn April, William H. Goetzmann, a Pulitzer-prize winning historian at The University of Texas at Austin, told the Austin American-Statesman that as a boy [...]
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Documented Immigrants
by Emily DePrang / Posted on | No CommentsEarly this August, I took a Greyhound bus from Tucson to Houston and back. It was a 24-hour trip that impressed my middle-class family [...]
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by Mary Helen Specht / Posted on | No CommentsThe larger publishing industry is crumbling, but “young adult” fiction appears to be holding steady, even growing. As someone who as a child read [...]
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by Anis Shivani / Posted on | No CommentsOscar Casares’s short story collection Brownsville (Back Bay, 2003) was an instant hit with critics and readers, establishing Casares as a writer to watch. [...]
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by Bill Minutaglio / Posted on | No CommentsIn their new biography of Molly Ivins, Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith chronicle the personal and journalistic arc of Texas’ late, lamented tormentor [...]
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