Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our September/October 2025 Issue
A note from the editor-in-chief
Texas Observer
Tristan Ahtone is the Texas Observer’s Next Editor-in-Chief
We can’t wait for him to get started.
The Best Texas Observer Longform Stories of the 2010s
We rounded up some of our hardest hitting longreads from the past ten years.
Texas Observer Founding Editor Ronnie Dugger Reflects on 65 Years of Publication
To celebrate our 65th birthday, we asked our founding editor about where the Observer has been and what he thinks about its future.
What the Texas Observer Has Taught Me
Almost everything I know about journalism, and much about life, I’ve learned from the editors, writers, designers, readers, sources and cranks who make up the Observer family.
Leaving the Gay Place Lights a Candle for the Patron Saint of Austin’s Counterculture
Tracy Daugherty’s new biography of The Gay Place author Billy Lee Brammer is part poetic ode, part oral history — and always a wild ride.
Submit: 2013 Texas Observer Short Story Contest Now Open for Entries
2013 Texas Observer Short Story Contest now open for entries