Culture

‘Earth Has No Sorrow’: Visions of a Caldwell County Long Gone

The Observer resurfaces a 50-year-old collection of fine arts photography and unique oral history.

A literary website that has connected bookish Texans since 2015 nearly closed this year. Then one of its readers saved it.

Texas highways have destroyed and dominated our built environment. Megan Kimble's book "City Limits" offers a new vision.

As co-editors of the Texas Observer, Kaye Northcott and Molly Ivins used humor and embedded themselves in the feminist movement.

The documentary reminds us how to revel in creative play and the company of others.

This is fine.

Capital punishment ensnares us all in a labyrinth of our own making, as your new film poignantly reveals.

Great art has come at a cost for Dan Winters and his family, as an intimate documentary reveals.

Robie Flores' "The In Between" is a love letter to la frontera—and a humanizing refutation of GOP fear-mongering.

Retracing the steps of a Texan lynched in 1921 requires a trip through dark days in state history.