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Book banning goes full ouroboros as a Texas school district removes the Bible from its shelves.

Book banning goes full ouroboros as a Texas school district removes the Bible from its shelves.

By Jessie Gaynor | August 16, 2022

Wildcatters and Hell-Raisers: On Being a Writer From Texas

Wildcatters and Hell-Raisers: On Being a Writer From Texas

Kimberly Garza Unpacks the Mythology of the Lone Star State

By Kimberly Garza | August 10, 2022

How Lady Bird Johnson Saw the President Die

How Lady Bird Johnson Saw the President Die

Julia Sweig On America’s Most Famous Second Lady-Turned-First

By Julia Sweig | May 6, 2022

How Texas Was Born of Revolution and Settler-Colonialism

How Texas Was Born of Revolution and Settler-Colonialism

Sam W. Haynes on the Indigenous Origins of Continental America's Largest State

By Sam W. Haynes | May 5, 2022

A Call to Southern Writers: Register People to Vote at Literary Events

A Call to Southern Writers: Register People to Vote at Literary Events

Read an Open Letter from Writers for Democratic Action

By Belle Boggs, Robin Davidson and Jill McCorkle | March 21, 2022

When Texas Abandoned Its Teachers

When Texas Abandoned Its Teachers

One Educator’s Story of the Pandemic

By Joshua Soule | October 19, 2021

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You can now download Robin Marty's handbook to abortion access and support for free.

By Vanessa Willoughby | September 2, 2021

How Racism, American Idealism, and Patriotism Created the Modern Myth of the Alamo and Davy Crockett

By Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford | June 22, 2021

On Juneteenth and the Struggle to Commemorate and Make Sense of Protest and Rebellion

By Jelani Cobb | June 18, 2021

Bryan Burrough on the Texas Creation Myth and the Real Story of the Alamo

Bryan Burrough on the Texas Creation Myth and the Real Story of the Alamo

Keen On Podcast">In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | June 15, 2021

Taking a Much-Needed Road Trip to Italy, Texas

Taking a Much-Needed Road Trip to Italy, Texas

Andrea Bajani on Finding a Bit of Home Wherever You Can

By Andrea Bajani | April 12, 2021

WTF, Texas? Lacy M. Johnson and Natalia Sylvester on Surviving the Recent Storm and Unraveling the Whitewashed Myth of Texas

WTF, Texas? Lacy M. Johnson and Natalia Sylvester on Surviving the Recent Storm and Unraveling the Whitewashed Myth of Texas

on Fiction/Non/Fiction">In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell
on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 11, 2021

A Letter to My Son: Kirsten West Savali on Motherhood and Ancestral Resilience

A Letter to My Son: Kirsten West Savali on Motherhood and Ancestral Resilience

"Our family’s legacy is too deep and our love too strong for a badge-wearing coward to strip away."

By Kirsten West Savali | August 13, 2020

Under a Sky Fall Full of Stars

Under a Sky Fall Full of Stars

David Searcy on the Slow Quiet of Life in a Pandemic

By David Searcy | May 7, 2020

Why We Should All Be Less Like Satan, More Like My Mom

Why We Should All Be Less Like Satan, More Like My Mom

Rye Curtis on Why Absolutism is (Almost Always) Bad

By Rye Curtis | February 26, 2020

The War on Poverty Changed a Young George Foreman's Life

The War on Poverty Changed a Young George Foreman's Life

How the Iconic Boxer's Future Was Tied Up with LBJ's Great Society

By Andrew R.M. Smith | January 17, 2020

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