‘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 Love and Loss of the Quintanillas
A new documentary uses archival family footage to retell the story of Selena y Los Dinos.
A Texas Writer Tackles a Subject ‘Beckoning in the Shadows His Entire Life’
Stephen Harrigan explores his own Catholic boyhood in Texas—and the prophecy left behind by a Portuguese prophet girl—in a compelling new book.
A Day in a Democracy
We still have one, after all, so may as well act like it.
Son of a Gun: What to Do with a Legacy of (Unwanted) Firearms
I love my dad; I don’t love his guns.
AI Is Dead
A Texas author earned a certificate in AI—but there’s no way he’d ever use it to write a book.
El Paso’s Still-Untold Story
A new revisionist history lays out an urgent task that it does not accomplish.
Texas’ First Black Woman Poet Laureate Spreads Poems of Praise
In tough times, Amanda Johnston is creating a community of gratitude with contributions from poets all across the state.
These Librarians Won’t Let America’s Fever Hit Fahrenheit 451
A new documentary shows us our local guardians of intellectual freedom in battle.