Tag Archives: the book report
All the Wrong Moves
In her first book, Jessica Luther challenges the college sports establishment to hold athletes accountable when they commit rape, sexual assault and domestic violence.
Luther challenges the billion-dollar college sports establishment to hold athletes accountable when they commit rape, sexual assault and domestic violence....Read More
Conventional Wisdom: Greg Abbott’s Broken but Unbowed, Reviewed
In his first book, the governor hews to a familiar theme — fantasies of a constitutional makeover writ by him.
The Texas governor's book is part political tract, part memoir, and laden with copious metaphors about government and the injury that left Abbott paralyzed....Read More
‘Midnight Assassin,’ A Century-Old Mystery with Modern Lessons on Race, Police, Power
The black community affected by Texas’ first serial killer is filtered through a white lens in 'The Midnight Assassin.'
One of Texas' best crime writers tackles a 100-year-old murder mystery in a book with urgent implications for modern policing, race and power....Read More
‘A History of Violence,’ a Plea for the Comprehension of Terror
Salvadoran journalist Óscar Martínez’s harrowing new book is a plea for comprehension of the terror that drives people from Central America to the U.S....Read More
Writing from the Trunk of the Latino Tree
In Dagoberto Gilb's new anthology of "great Mexican-American voices," the best writers in MexAm literature take on identity, immigration and more....Read More
Turning Hard Right
Daniel Oppenheimer's 'Exit Right' looks at why some of the left's brightest lights gave up the cause.
David Oppenheimer's 'Exit Left' explores the psychological and biographical factors that inspired six famous leftist thinkers to make hard right turns....Read More
Peter LaSalle Seizes the Day
The ordinary particulars of being a person figure into LaSalle's new collection of essays, which bucks the obnoxious disembodied quality that sometimes afflicts travel writing.
The ordinary particulars of being a person — aging, taxes, bills, sunburn and thirst — all figure into the essays, ensuring that they buck the obnoxious dis...Read More
The Afghanistan Addiction
Former Navy medic Brandon Caro's new novel provides a look into what it’s like to be a non-combatant in a conflict in which there’s no such thing.
Caro is far from self-indulgent here; the disorientation he engenders in the reader is carefully orchestrated, and he rises to a challenge O’Brien lays out in...Read More
Five Books We Loved in 2015
The Observer’s criteria for book reviews is intentionally vague, so we can include anything with a connection to Texas that’s well worth reading. In 2015, ...Read More