Culture
Short Story Contest Finalist: ‘Only Animals’
The Texas Miracle #18: Our Best 40 Minutes (So Far)
From a chili-related query on our inaugural episode to ruminations on police violence to Wendy Davis on abortion politics, it's a Miracle retrospective.
From a chili-related query on our inaugural episode to ruminations on police violence to Wendy Davis on abortion politics, it's a Miracle retrospective....Read More
Eye on Texas: San Antonio Charro Ranch
San Antonio photojournalist Darren Abate says the San Antonio Charro Ranch is one of his favorite places to shoot when he's shooting for himself....Read More
Poem: ‘Whitewashing’
The Observer's August poem: 'Whitewashing,' by Gerard Robledo, a San Antonio poet who works at San Antonio College and the Barrio Writer’s youth program....Read More
‘Hell or High Water,’ a Magnetic, Swift-Moving Tale for Texans
Waco's Taylor Sheridan brings viewers a film equal parts picturesque and picaresque in 'Hell or High Water,' with a soundtrack of Lone Star troubadours....Read More
Conventional Wisdom: Greg Abbott’s Broken but Unbowed, Reviewed
In his first book, the governor hews to a familiar theme — fantasies of a constitutional makeover writ by him.
The Texas governor's book is part political tract, part memoir, and laden with copious metaphors about government and the injury that left Abbott paralyzed....Read More
Good as Gone Treats Women Mysteriously Like People
Austin writer Amy Gentry's novel blends feminism and mystery, drawing on Gentry's experience working in a women's shelter.
Austin writer Amy Gentry's new novel blends feminism with mystery, drawing on Gentry's experience working in a women's shelter. ...Read More
Eye on Texas: TX Open Swim
In July's Eye on Texas, Austin photographer Jenny Sathngam gives us a "peek at the faces of people at my favorite (sometimes secret) Texas swimming haunts."...Read More
The Texas Miracle #14: Make Pokemon Great Again
Texas country artist Coffey Anderson talks about his viral police video, plus the best Pokemon Go tips from Texas journalism's biggest Poke-fan.
News outlets are going wild for Pokemon Go, plus a Texas country music artist who's made the national spotlight thanks to a viral video about police....Read More
Meet the Texas Scholar Who Unearthed Walt Whitman’s 19th Century Clickbait
A closer look at the poet’s musings on “Manly Health.”
The many turns of fate that brought Dripping Springs native Zachary Turpin to an undiscovered Walt Whitman archive covering the hinterlands of health....Read More