Texas Book Festival

Black Bookstore Owners, Government Spies, and Murder

Authors bring new insights to complex stories in nonfiction featured at the 2025 Texas Book Festival.

Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our November/December 2025 Issue

Author William Lopez on How Immigration Raids Inflict Long-Lasting Trauma

by Isabela Dias

An Observer Staff Guide to the 2019 Texas Book Festival

by Texas Observer Staff

Texas Book Festival Itinerary—Foodie Edition

by Meagan Solis

Op-Ed: Dear Texas Book Festival—Where Have All the Latino Writers Gone?

by Gregg Barrios

Austin Writers Win 2013 Illumine Awards

by Meagan Solis

Second Edition in San Antone

Texas Book Festival Executive Director Lidia Agraz and First Lady Laura Bush at the 2012 author lineup announcement event at the Bush home in Dallas.

Texas Book Festival Field Guide

Austin writer Imani K. Evans highlights the festival's panels in this introduction.

by Imani K. Evans

Talkin’ Books in Austin

by Texas Observer Staff