Saving Lone Star Literary Life
A literary website that has connected bookish Texans since 2015 nearly closed this year. Then one of its readers saved it.
Culture
In ‘How Do I Say Her Name?,’ Women Artists of Color Grapple with Police Violence
A new exhibit at Art League Houston aims to raise awareness of police brutality against women of color.
Valeria Luiselli’s ‘Tell Me How It Ends’ Is the First Must-Read Book of the Trump Era
The Mexican novelist writes that asylum-seekers come to the U.S. not in search of the American dream, but “to wake up from the nightmare into which they were born.”
‘Diamondback Day’ at the Texas Capitol Belies a Serpentine Controversy
It’s all in good fun when rattlesnakes descend on the Capitol each February, but the way they’re hunted is no laughing matter.
In ‘Without Getting Killed or Caught,’ Guy Clark Defies Categorization
Clark’s acoustic, finger-picked Southwestern-flavored songs were too countrified for folk and too folky for country — and the Nashville hit factory never knew what the hell to do with him.
Fungi Town
Taking a mushroom census in southeast Texas.
If These Walls Could Talk
The pictographs of the Pecos River have lasted millennia in a tempestuous desert, surviving mostly in silence. Now an archaeologist has cracked the code — and they can begin to speak again.