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Books

A Soccer Team Mirrors Juarez’s Decline

by Christine Granados

Fri, Sep 14, 2012

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

by Steven G. Kellman

Thu, Sep 13, 2012

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

by Nico Vreeland

Wed, Sep 12, 2012

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.

by Susan Smith Richardson

Mon, Sep 10, 2012

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

by Robert Leleux

Mon, Sep 10, 2012

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

by Richard Z. Santos

Thu, Sep 6, 2012

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

by Roberto Ontiveros

Tue, Sep 4, 2012

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

Coming of Age in Brownsville

by Roberto Ontiveros

Tue, Sep 4, 2012

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

Uncle Walter and Modern American Politics

by Dan Oko

Tue, Aug 28, 2012

As a young boy, the budding historian Douglas Brinkley followed Walter Cronkite’s nightly broadcasts on the CBS Evening News. The legendary, late broadcaster ...Read More

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