The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
Who runs the world? Secretaries, spies, and survivors in Lara Prescott's debut novel
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Rosalind Faires, Arts, Sept. 12, 2019
Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan
A Texas Flood of new interviews paint an intimate portrait of late Austin guitar god
Doug Freeman, Music, Sept. 5, 2019
Cold Storage
David Koepp's new thriller involves zombies, but its unexpected take, rooted in scientific realism, will make you rethink how the genre works
Reid Jowers, Arts, Aug. 29, 2019
The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited!
The McElroys' hit RPG podcast-turned-comic earns its exclamation mark
Rosalind Faires, Arts, Aug. 8, 2019
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
Casey Cep solves the mystery of the true crime book that Harper Lee never wrote
Rosalind Faires, Arts, July 18, 2019
A Risky Undertaking for Loretta Singletary by Terry Shames
Police chief Samuel Craddock searches for a missing friend while on a visit to Jarrett Creek, Texas
Robert Faires, Arts, July 18, 2019
Road Tripping With a Serial Killer in Paper Ghosts
As well as being a riveting psychological thriller, this tale of a road trip across Texas with a serial killer shows the state in an intimate light
Elizabeth Cobbe, Arts, July 18, 2019
Houston Noir Anthology Explores H-Town Badness
H-Town badness gets the Akashic rundown in a criminally good anthology
Wayne Alan Brenner, Arts, July 18, 2019
The Bird Boys Brings Crime to 1970s Beaumont
Lisa Sandlin's characters try to solve the mysteries of themselves
Robert Faires, Arts, July 18, 2019
An Accidental Cuban
Joan Moran's up-to-the-minute page-turner exposes the dark and gritty side of Cuba with schemes full of treachery, double-dealing, and murder
Jay Trachtenberg, Arts, July 11, 2019
Ghost Wall
Sarah Moss' remarkable novella shows how one man's fascination with Iron Age Britain can manifest in the present in a terrifying way
Elizabeth Cobbe, Arts, May 23, 2019
Outside Looking In by T.C. Boyle
With this novel about Timothy Leary and LSD in the early Sixties, T.C. Boyle has written a mighty book – and a gift
David Gaines, Arts, April 11, 2019
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A. Caro
The author of The Path to Power shares the methods and motivations he employs while producing his award-winning biographies
Roberto Ontiveros, Arts, April 4, 2019
Shooting Lessons by Lenny Kleinfeld
Kleinfeld's newest Chicago-based crime thriller takes the safety off
Wayne Alan Brenner, Arts, April 4, 2019
What If the Marx Brothers Got Around to Making That Movie With Salvador Dalí?
Josh Frank brings the legendary unproduced movie to printed life
Wayne Alan Brenner, Screens, March 21, 2019
What If The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Was Really About the Horrors of Modern American Society?
Putting the Austin-made seminal slasher back into context
Marc Savlov, Screens, March 21, 2019
What If Mickey Mouse Had a Life Outside the Movies?
Why we’re drawn to illustrated icons
Richard Whittaker, Screens, March 21, 2019
Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken
Bowling is something sacred in Elizabeth McCracken’s multigenerational novel
Rosalind Faires, Arts, Jan. 31, 2019
Last Woman Standing by Amy Gentry
Amy Gentry’s Austin-set second novel is an electric revenge thriller
Rosalind Faires, Arts, Jan. 17, 2019
Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century
Time to rethink jazz
Michael Toland, Music, Dec. 20, 2018
Tori Amos's Boys for Pele
The cult of Tori Amos and how to navigate a life of writing
Rachel Rascoe, Music, Dec. 20, 2018
Been So Long: My Life and Music
Have a sip of Kool-Aid and flash back to the Haight-Asbury
Jay Trachtenberg, Music, Dec. 20, 2018
How to Be Famous
A fictional relative to High Fidelity
Abby Johnston, Music, Dec. 20, 2018
Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording With Wilco, Etc.
Kids, cancer, and Vicodin: Jeff Tweedy’s life in Wilco – first half!
William Harries Graham, Music, Dec. 20, 2018
The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5 & My Life of Impossibilities
MC5 leader rolls five books into one
Tim Stegall, Music, Dec. 20, 2018
My Years With Townes Van Zandt
Twenty years with Townes Van Zandt riding shotgun
Doug Freeman, Music, Dec. 20, 2018
Debussy: A Painter in Sound
What does it mean to be a classical radical?
Graham Reynolds, Music, Dec. 20, 2018
Wasn't That a Time: the Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America
Once, folk singers faced jail time and worse for their political affiliations
Kevin Curtin, Music, Dec. 20, 2018
A Mile Above Texas
Gorgeous images of land and water shot from the air provide a fresh perspective on the Lone Star State
Robert Faires, Arts, Dec. 6, 2018
Garlandia
One family man’s fight to survive divine assaults and a community turned against him becomes a rollicking, rambling epic, superbly rendered
Wayne Alan Brenner, Arts, Dec. 6, 2018
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