Books
An Unforgettable War
For nearly a decade publishers have been filling bookstores with tomes about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. First came those from the embedded journalists; t...Read More
Austin’s Literary Fairy Godmother
Amelia Gray's THREATS was nominated for the prestigious Dylan Thomas Prize.
Around the time Fifty Shades of Grey became a worrisome phenomenon, a quieter novel, one without bondage porn or roots in Twilight fan fiction, was released by ...Read More
A Soccer Team Mirrors Juarez’s Decline
In This Love Is Not For Cowards: Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juarez, Robert Andrew Powell chronicles the downward spiral of a Mexican professional soccer tea...Read More
A Nuclear Family Comes Apart
The toxic radiation emitted by the Hardings of Houston comes from the fission of a nuclear family. The fission also accounts for the power that Andrew Porter ha...Read More
A Dangling Metaphor
The Kentucky Club, a storied, once-elegant bar whose historic guests include Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe, sits on Avenida Juarez, four blocks from the U.S....Read More
Power Politics
Books about Texas, the presidency and national politics remind us that the Lone Star State has a long history of influencing the country’s agenda.
Aside from being Texans, John Nance Garner and Lyndon Baines Johnson had something else in common. As vice presidents, they were eclipsed by charismatic command...Read More
The Other Side of the American Dream
Many of us find it difficult to practice diplomacy with our relatives. But when typical family squabbles are complicated by national borders—as they are in Re...Read More
Lost in South Texas
Everyone in Along These Highways, Rene S. Perez’s fine, slender debut collection of short stories, wants to be someplace else. These people, mostly young Lati...Read More
Coming of Age in Brownsville
It has always taken a lot of guts to write unfavorably about one’s family. Domingo Martinez, a Seattle-based writer who grew up in Brownsville, just might be ...Read More