Books
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The Rising Storm
A new book on climate and migration predicts a future of "guards, guns and gates" unless we act soon.
In Todd Miller’s prescient new book, Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security, the Tucson journalist and author travels the glo...Read More
Stalking Horse
Inside a rookie FBI agent’s quest to take down a brutal drug cartel’s American horse-racing empire.
Stalking Horse Inside a rookie FBI agent’s quest to take down a brutal drug cartel’s American horse-racing empire. In her new book, Bloodlines: The True Sto...Read More
Seven Texas Indie Booksellers on Their Favorite Books of the Year (So Far)
In honor of the first-annual Texas Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, we asked booksellers around the state to tell us about their best read so far this yea...Read More
‘El Peso Hero’ is the 21st-Century Borderland Superhero Texas Needs
Hector Rodriguez couldn’t find a comic hero he could relate to, so he created one.
Hector Rodriguez couldn’t find a comic hero he could relate to, so he created one....Read More
‘The Hour of Land,’ Terry Tempest Williams’ Love Letter to National Parks
Trump’s attacks on public lands have given new urgency to Williams’ work.
Trump’s attacks on public lands have given new urgency to Williams’ work....Read More
Announcing the Seventh Annual Observer Short Story Contest
We're now taking submissions for our seventh annual short story contest.
We're now taking submissions for our seventh annual short story contest....Read More
At Home in the In-Between
In 'All the Agents and Saints,' Stephanie Elizondo Griest doesn't just describe her country's in-between zones. She inhabits them.
There’s an almost throwaway bit of scene-setting late in All the Agents and Saints, just a few pages from the book’s end, that explains a lot about its writ...Read More
‘The Potlikker Papers’ Wants You to Eat Your Grits with a Side of Discomfort
John T. Edge’s new food history is an unflinching look at 60 years of racism and activism in the South.
John T. Edge’s new food history is an unflinching look at 60 years of racism and activism in the South....Read More
We Were the Safety Net
From Rachel Pearson's "No Apparent Distress: A Doctor’s Coming of Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine," this excerpt is featured in our April issue.
We Were the Safety Net As a medical student in Galveston, Rachel Pearson learned as much in her work at St. Vincent’s, a student-run charity clinic, as in...Read More