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A Night at the Screamo Bookstore
On another night, Alienated Majesty Books near the University of Texas at Austin campus might host a conversation with a novelist or a poetry open mic. But on this Saturday, the shelves and tables...
View Article‘I Am Not Your Enemy’
The following is excerpted from the closing chapter of I Am Not Your Enemy: A Memoir, out September 16 from Spiegel & Grau. It is reprinted with permission of the publisher, © 2025. I have to be...
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Life in the Time of Hurricanes
Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted from the first chapter of Life in the Time of Hurricanes by Rod Davis, out this month from TCU Press. It is republished here with permission. “And once the...
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The Arc Doesn’t Bend Itself
Editor’s Note: The following is adapted from the introduction to The Texas Civil Rights Project: How We Built a Social Justice Movement by Jim Harrington, who in 1990 founded the groundbreaking...
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The History of Eugenics in Texas Isn’t What You Think
I’ll admit: Having grown addicted to the treats of literary nonfiction, I don’t make it through too many academic histories these days. If I’m going to, there’d better at least be a decent lede—and...
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‘The Search Committee’ Is a Subtle Rebuke of the Border Literary Canon
The opening pages of José Skinner’s new novel The Search Committee seem to promise readers a merciless academic satire set in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. The first character introduced is a cringey...
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Art Is Immortality
Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted with permission from Art Above Everything: One Woman’s Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life (Beacon Press; June 10, 2025). My dad...
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A Texas Writer Tackles a Subject ‘Beckoning in the Shadows His Entire Life’
These days, the thrum of traffic and the roar of a bulldozer intrude on conversations at café tables clustered outside the Swedish Hill bakery, an Austin landmark where author Stephen Harrigan and a...
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Forgotten Crossings at the Edge of Texas
Editor’s Note: Author Richard Parker died early last month, days after publication of his book The Crossing. “My dad was a person that loved learning about the world around him, and we saw that in his...
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El Paso’s Still-Untold Story
Editor’s Note: Author Richard Parker died early last month, after this review was published in print and days after publication of his book The Crossing. “My dad was a person that loved learning about...
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The Sordid, Unscientific Story Behind Lethal Injection
Texas was the first U.S. state to execute someone by lethal injection, but the idea for the novel method came from Oklahoma. Our northern neighbor was the first to adopt the plan to replace the...
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The Lawless Border Wall
In February, bulldozers carved long straight lines, uprooting trees and scraping the earth bare, near the South Texas communities of Salineño and Roma, the start of the first new border walls built...
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The Scientist and the Serial Killer: Cracking the Case of Houston’s ‘Lost Boys’
Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted from The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston’s Lost Boys (Random House, April 2025) by Texas Observer Investigations Editor Lise Olsen....
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Inside Fort Worth’s Narcotic Farm Experiment
Texas’ history of addiction treatment can be seen as a dance in place: public opinion swings, the Legislature takes one step forward, then two political steps back. Ultimately, little progress is...
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Booked Up in 2024: What to Read from a Strong Year in Texas Letters
Winding up your year by the fire (or by the pool) as the temperature rises and dips? Or just taking off on a long holiday drive? In any of these scenarios, you likely need an audio book or podcast to...
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Uvalde’s Darkest Hour
Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted with permission from Uvalde’s Darkest Hour (Texas A&M University Press, December 3) by Craig Garnett, who has owned the Uvalde Leader-News, the local...
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When the Prophetic City Fails
“Loose dogs” on Houston’s Northside were roving the streets in small bands, sowing chaos. At least, this was the opinion of the mostly white members of a local civic club near Lindale Park, which has...
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Seeing the Unseen
Since the publication of his 1985 chapbook of stories, Winners on the Pass Line, Dagoberto Gilb has been altering the literary landscape by offering his readers strong working class-centered fiction...
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How Texas Jails Built Migrant Incarceration
In 1926, the Galveston League of Women Voters wrote to their U.S. senator to express concern over the “dreadful conditions which exist in regard to the detention of deportees in this part of the...
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Did the First American in Space Take an Extra Golf Ball to the Moon?
Editor’s Note: The Barber, The Astronaut, and The Golf Ball by Barbara Radnofsky and Ed Supkis will be published on October 22 by Stoney Creek Publishing. This excerpt, which has been edited and...
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