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"The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America’s Forgotten Origin Story," by Richard Parker, says yes. The evidence suggests otherwise.

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14.02.2025

13 Steamy Must-Reads, According to Romance Bookstore Owners

Texas is home to a growing crop of rom-com bookshops, and their proprietors know exactly what you should be reading this Valentine’s Day.

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14.02.2025

Fernando A. Flores Didn’t Mean to Write a Novel About Elon Musk’s Texas

The border native on dystopian literature, banned books, and tech boomtowns, both real and imagined.

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Can You Ever Leave a Difficult Childhood Behind?

Sarah LaBrie is a successful television scriptwriter with a sterling academic pedigree. But the arduous years she spent growing up in Houston won’t let go.

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20.11.2024

Vincent Valdez, Charley Crocket, and More December Arts Picks

Here’s how we’re getting a kick out of living in the Lone Star State this December.

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19.11.2024

Surprising No One, Willie Nelson's New Cookbook Is About Weed – Texas Monthly

‘Willie & Annie Nelson’s Cannabis Cookbook’ teaches you how to get high and get full like the Red Headed Stranger.

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16.11.2024

Poet Naomi Shihab Nye Talks About Optimism, Despair, and Texas

Acclaimed San Antonio writer Naomi Shihab Nye talks about the “clarifying” power of poetry and why it’s needed in turbulent times.

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This Halloween, Road-Trip to the Horror Bookstores of Central Texas

New York City has one fright-focused book shop. Texas readers can visit three in an afternoon.

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25.10.2024

I Thought I’d Lost Venezuela. Texas Helped Me Get It Back.

Through writing his debut novel, ‘Freedom Is a Feast,’ Alejandro Puyana found a new connection to home—both of them.

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Willie’s New Album, Selena Gomez’s New Film, and More in Texas Culture

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18.10.2024

Forever Oak Park High, by Ada Zhang

In this original short story, two best friends on the high school dance team chart different paths but come together for a game that could bring glory to their town.

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11.10.2024

This Halloween, Road-Trip to the Horror Bookstores of Central Texas

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02.10.2024

Was Austin All That Great to Begin With? – Texas Monthly

A new book does a lively job of lamenting the supposed decline of Texas’s capital city. But maybe it’s time to stop looking back.

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‘A Natural History of Empty Lots’ Is an Ode to Abandoned Places

Austin author Christopher Brown’s sprawling, philosophical new book celebrates overlooked urban spaces.

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Leon Bridges, Bratwurst, and Beer Make It a Great Month in Texas Culture

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12.09.2024

‘Uncle Sam’ Was a Comics Masterpiece. Why Is It Only Being Reprinted Now?

The 1997 comic, in which a bedraggled Uncle Sam battles for the soul of America, soon fell out of print. Are 2024 audiences better equipped to handle it?

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11.09.2024

Farm Animals Go Glam in Randal Ford’s New Book of Photographs

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Joe R. Lansdale on "The Thicket" Film and How It Differs from His Book

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From I-35 to MI5: A Texan’s Journey Into Espionage

Ava Glass turned her time writing counterterrorism communiqués into a series of hyperrealistic spy novels. Her latest, ‘The Trap,’ is out this week.

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'The Devil Behind the Badge': A New Book Looks at Laredo's Serial Killer

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Why Attica Locke Writes About Texas While Living in Los Angeles

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‘Romeo and Juliet’ Meets Waco Siege in Bret Anthony Johnston's New Novel

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A Texas Congressman Wrote the Culture War Playbook When He Killed a 1930s Theater Program

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Why Did Roy Benavidez Fight for Years to be Recognized for His Heroism?

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A Stroke Didn’t Stop Me From Paddling 84 Miles Down the Nueces River

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Paddling Caddo Lake with Texas Photographer Keith Carter

Texas Country Reporter tags along with the photographer whose latest book highlights the gothic beauty of southern swamps.

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The Texas Ranger Who Helped a Serial Killer Go Free

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Our Editor In Chief on His Texas Reading Habit – Texas Monthly

A ‘Lonesome Dove’ Lover’s Reading Guide

Corpus Christi Native Rebecca Gardner Is the Party Queen

James Wade's New Novel Is Set in East Texas But Still a Western

The Story of Texas in More Than 100 Maps

Emily Hunt Kivel’s ‘Dwelling’ Is a Surreal Fairy Tale About Finding Home

On the Cusp of Literary Stardom, This West Texas Novelist Lost It All

Remembering My Friend Paulette Jiles

With ‘The Slip,’ Lucas Schaefer Might Have Written the Great Austin Novel

Fernando A. Flores on Conjuring a Portrait of Elon Musk’s Texas

Tina Knowles on Telling the Beyoncé Family Story

Tina Knowles Is Just Another Proud Mom At Heart

Wait, Did El Paso Really Change the World? – Texas Monthly

13 Steamy Must-Reads, According to Romance Bookstore Owners

Fernando A. Flores Didn’t Mean to Write a Novel About Elon Musk’s Texas

Can You Ever Leave a Difficult Childhood Behind?

Vincent Valdez, Charley Crocket, and More December Arts Picks

Surprising No One, Willie Nelson's New Cookbook Is About Weed – Texas Monthly

Poet Naomi Shihab Nye Talks About Optimism, Despair, and Texas

This Halloween, Road-Trip to the Horror Bookstores of Central Texas

I Thought I’d Lost Venezuela. Texas Helped Me Get It Back.

Willie’s New Album, Selena Gomez’s New Film, and More in Texas Culture

Forever Oak Park High, by Ada Zhang

This Halloween, Road-Trip to the Horror Bookstores of Central Texas

Was Austin All That Great to Begin With? – Texas Monthly

‘A Natural History of Empty Lots’ Is an Ode to Abandoned Places

Leon Bridges, Bratwurst, and Beer Make It a Great Month in Texas Culture

‘Uncle Sam’ Was a Comics Masterpiece. Why Is It Only Being Reprinted Now?

Farm Animals Go Glam in Randal Ford’s New Book of Photographs

Joe R. Lansdale on "The Thicket" Film and How It Differs from His Book

From I-35 to MI5: A Texan’s Journey Into Espionage

Praise Be! Texas Poetry Just Got Funded – Texas Monthly

'The Devil Behind the Badge': A New Book Looks at Laredo's Serial Killer

Why Attica Locke Writes About Texas While Living in Los Angeles

‘Romeo and Juliet’ Meets Waco Siege in Bret Anthony Johnston's New Novel

A Texas Congressman Wrote the Culture War Playbook When He Killed a 1930s Theater Program

Why Did Roy Benavidez Fight for Years to be Recognized for His Heroism?

A Stroke Didn’t Stop Me From Paddling 84 Miles Down the Nueces River

Paddling Caddo Lake with Texas Photographer Keith Carter

The Texas Ranger Who Helped a Serial Killer Go Free

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