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.

Texas Monthly

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.

Texas Monthly

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.

Texas Monthly

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.

Texas Monthly

01.11.2024

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.

Texas Monthly

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.

Texas Monthly

23.10.2024

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

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

Texas Monthly

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.

Texas Monthly

11.10.2024

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.

Texas Monthly

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.

Texas Monthly

24.09.2024

‘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.

Texas Monthly

19.09.2024

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

The singer's self-titled new album, Oktoberfest in the Hill Country, and more ways we're getting a kick out of living in the Lone Star State.

Texas Monthly

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?

Texas Monthly

11.09.2024

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

Chickens, cows, horses, and more barnyard critters star in photographer Randal Ford’s new book, ‘Farm Life: A Collection of Animal Portraits.’

Texas Monthly

07.09.2024

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

The East Texan’s gritty novel inspired a movie that stars Peter Dinklage, Levon Hawke, and Juliette Lewis as the villain Cutthroat Bill.

Texas Monthly

06.09.2024

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.

Texas Monthly

22.08.2024

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

This detailed account raises questions about the motives of Juan David Ortiz, who killed four women in 2018.

Texas Monthly

22.08.2024

Why Attica Locke Writes About Texas While Living in Los Angeles

The author will end the Highway 59 trilogy with a new novel, Guide Me Home, while working with her sister Tembi Locke on a TV adaptation.

Texas Monthly

22.08.2024

Praise Be! Texas Poetry Just Got Funded – Texas Monthly

The state poet laureate just won a fellowship, proving there IS money in poetry, Mom.

Texas Monthly

27.07.2024

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

In "We Burn Daylight," star-crossed lovers narrate a story of romance amid a standoff between a religious cult and the law.

Texas Monthly

26.07.2024

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

The Federal Theatre Project launched the careers of Arthur Miller and Orson Welles, and brought free plays to millions. Martin Dies helped shut it down.

Texas Monthly

25.07.2024

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

A biography by William Sturkey looks at the legacy of the Texas Green Beret who was repeatedly denied the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Texas Monthly

03.07.2024

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

I’d always dreamed of kayaking a Texas river to the Gulf of Mexico. After my stroke, a long paddling voyage seemed impossible—but dreams are stubborn things.

Texas Monthly

26.06.2024

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.

Texas Monthly

21.06.2024

The Texas Ranger Who Helped a Serial Killer Go Free

In this adapted excerpt from her new book, ‘We Were Illegal,’ Jessica Goudeau looks at the life of a relative who was not as heroic as she first thought.

Texas Monthly

19.06.2024

Glen Powell in "Twister," Plus More Releases From Texans This July

An Austin actor keeps tearing through Hollywood, a fortysomething El Pasoan keeps writing your teen’s favorite songs, and a columnist at a Houston newspaper keeps spinning yarns.

Texas Monthly

14.06.2024

Marcela Fuentes’s 'Malas' Is the Next Great Texas Literary Epic

Amid a bumper crop of generation-spanning novels from Texas Latinas, Marcela Fuentes’s new novel, set on the Texas-Mexico border, stands out.

Texas Monthly

17.05.2024

Two Beloved San Antonio Bookstores Have Closed. Who’s to Blame?

Antiquarian Book Mart, on Broadway, has shut down. It’s the latest change in an area of the city experiencing the push and pull of nostalgia and progress.

Texas Monthly

14.05.2024

Colleen Hoover Is a Best-selling BookTok Sensation. Will She Ever Write Again?

Her first film adaptation stars Blake Lively and hits theaters this summer, but readers and TikTok haters wonder what’s next. So does she.

Texas Monthly

10.05.2024

How Kimberly King Parsons Crafted a Modern, Hallucinatory Texas Novel

In "We Were the Universe," Parsons builds a world that feels deeply rooted in Texas, but devoid of any old-school, clichéd depictions of the state.

Texas Monthly

30.04.2024

Tito's Vodka Has a New Book Filled with Recipes and Lore

“Spirit in a Bottle,” out May 7, highlights Austin-based Tito's Vodka's rise to prominence alongside cocktail and infusion recipes.

Texas Monthly

24.04.2024

The Checklist: Three Reasons This Is a Great Month in Texas Culture

Another dark comedy from Richard Linklater, a report on the ideological battles plaguing public schools, and an exhibition of modern collages by Black artists.

Texas Monthly

16.04.2024

The Best Harlem Renaissance Poet You've Never Heard Of

Waring Cuney has largely been forgotten. But a new biography, ‘Images in the River,’ seeks to change that.

Texas Monthly

09.04.2024

How a Little Book Managed to Encompass an Enormous State

‘Texas, Being: A State of Poems’ has something for everyone.

Texas Monthly

14.03.2024

Terry Allen Doesn’t Care What the Smithsonian Wants – Texas Monthly

At eighty, the musician-artist-playwright is still doing things his way. (He is worried about the year 4024, though.)

Texas Monthly

22.02.2024

How Heartdrum, a Texas-Based Imprint, Brings Indigenous Stories to Life

The HarperCollins imprint, curated by Cynthia Leitich Smith, is on a mission to let Native kids “see themselves as heroes of their own life stories.”

Texas Monthly

24.01.2024

The Checklist: Three Books Worth Reading This Month – Texas Monthly

In this trio of novels, the past and present—or, in one case, the near-future—intertwine in a revealing manner.

Texas Monthly

19.01.2024

The Letters, by Andrew Porter – Texas Monthly

In this original short story, a San Antonio divorcé receives a series of missives from his elderly mother that hint at a past he never knew about.

Texas Monthly

07.12.2023

A Wild Trip Into the World of Far-Right Novels – Texas Monthly

Texas's Defiance Press publishes conservative broadsides that border on fiction. But it’s the company’s actual novels that are truly strange.

Texas Monthly

07.12.2023

Texas Is Bursting With Independent Books – Texas Monthly

Our state’s legacy of great writing has a publishing tradition to match. Here are a handful of the dozens of outfits producing great books in Texas.

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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

'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

Praise Be! Texas Poetry Just Got Funded – Texas Monthly

‘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

Glen Powell in "Twister," Plus More Releases From Texans This July

Marcela Fuentes’s 'Malas' Is the Next Great Texas Literary Epic

Two Beloved San Antonio Bookstores Have Closed. Who’s to Blame?

Colleen Hoover Is a Best-selling BookTok Sensation. Will She Ever Write Again?

How Kimberly King Parsons Crafted a Modern, Hallucinatory Texas Novel

Tito's Vodka Has a New Book Filled with Recipes and Lore

The Checklist: Three Reasons This Is a Great Month in Texas Culture

The Best Harlem Renaissance Poet You've Never Heard Of

How a Little Book Managed to Encompass an Enormous State

Terry Allen Doesn’t Care What the Smithsonian Wants – Texas Monthly

How Heartdrum, a Texas-Based Imprint, Brings Indigenous Stories to Life

The Checklist: Three Books Worth Reading This Month – Texas Monthly

The Letters, by Andrew Porter – Texas Monthly

A Wild Trip Into the World of Far-Right Novels – Texas Monthly

Texas Is Bursting With Independent Books – Texas Monthly

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