Debbie Nathan

Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-speaking United States Mexican New York: On a road trip through the Midwest boonies in the early 1990s, I was astonished to see signs plastered in Liberal, Kansas, advertising a local … Read More

Trail of Feathers: Searching for Phil True. A Reporter’s Murder in Mexico and His Editor’s Search for Justice In 1998 Phil True, a good-looking, hippie-ish foreign correspondent for the San Antonio Express-News, vanished while backpacking alone in the Sierra Madre … Read More

A Butter Take on Texas History BY DEBBIE NATHAN A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier By Frederick Law Olmsted University of Nebraska Press 539 pages, $21.95 A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the … Read More

Jessica Wicks and Robin Manhart were a number. A lesbian number. They wanted to tie the knot so they went to the county building for a marriage license. No problem: A clerk filled out forms and two dykes were free … Read More

Outside the RNC, angry protesters from Texas cursed GOP delegates from Texas as fanatics, elitists, and deceivers. Inside, at Madison Square Garden and endless parties, delegates rolled their eyes and called protesters everything from naive to girlie to terrorists. The … Read More

Frank Bender is an East Coast native who knows maybe four words of Spanish and not much more about countries where Spanish is spoken. Lately, though, he’s become obsessed with Ciudad Juarez: with bringing the women murdered there back from … Read More

Lone Done Gone A revisionist historian tackles the curse of T.R. Fehrenbach BY DEBBIE NATHAN Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star StateBy Randolph B. CampbellOxford University Press500 pages, $35 few years ago I was traveling Texas’ Ivory … Read More