Booked Up in 2024: What to Read from a Strong Year in Texas Letters
Some Texas nonfiction, novels, and poems to get through those long winter nights.
How Texas Jails Built Migrant Incarceration
Following a 1925 investigation, immigrant detention in the Galveston County Jail was declared “a crime against humanity.”
Did the First American in Space Take an Extra Golf Ball to the Moon?
A new book reveals the secrets of moon memorabilia and the friendship between a famous Texas astronaut and his barber.
Lost in Austin: Climate Change, Displacement, and Race in the Texas Capital
The story of Rainey Street is Austin gentrification in microcosm.
Lawmen Above the Law
A new book takes aim at the seemingly unchecked power of America’s gun-toting sheriffs.
The Mexican American Story
Sometimes learning about history hurts. But if we want to heal from these wounds, we first have to learn the truth.
Stories from Deep in the Heart
A new collection of Joe Holley's Native Texan columns treats subjects ranging from an Austin serial killer to a prison known as "Burnin' Hell" to a battle of porcine proportions.
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Bringing Home the Story of Ben Spencer
An innocent Texan was caught for more than three decades in a web of lies and injustice.
The Banality of Border Evil
What a long-dead, cartoonishly corrupt Texas bureaucrat can tell us about the nature of immigration enforcement and the U.S.-Mexico divide
‘Tech Doesn’t Just Stay at the Border’: Petra Molnar on Surveillance’s Long Reach
“The border is like a free-for-all, this frontier zone that is a perfect laboratory for tech experimentation.”