‘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.
Culture
‘The Queen vs. Texas’ Revisits the Battle over Lone Star Drag
Raemonn James, better known as Hermajestie the Hung, teamed up with a filmmaker to tell a moving story of activism and queer culture.
Poem: Drought
We sit by the window of the nursing home where her face can feel the sun.
Loon Star State: Hoax
This is fine.
Strangest State: Hello Possum, Goodbye Fish
Sharing the latest dispatches from far-flung Texas.
The Long Road to a Juneteenth Museum
Architects have made a Fort Worth neighborhood’s history part of the plan.
San Fernando: The Last Stop
A disturbing new book reveals how organized criminals routinely targeted and killed travelers bound for the Texas border with almost total impunity.
Border Angels and Magic Moments
A professor and a journalist report from the communities along the U.S.-Mexico border in a new book.
What Does the United States Owe Central America?
A new work of nonfiction revives a history that some would sooner see forgotten.
Naomi Shihab Nye: Life As a Palestinian-American Poet
"Palestinians are all haunted. We’re haunted by what used to be, what could have been."