The Age of Miracles

Apocalypse Wow: 'The Age of Miracles'

"...of terror. There are horrors here common to end-times fiction – flora and fauna extinction, a gravity sickness that..."

June 15, 2012 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Book of Khalid

Maps to the Middle East: 'The Book of Khalid'

"...toward change in this cerebral and poignant work of fiction. He also uses humor and wit to tackle the..."

June 15, 2012 Books Feature by Jessi Cape

Here's a Brief Platter of Tasty Pop-Fiction Palaver

With a side of kaeng la-tey, farang

"...[ Listen: If we wanted to read Teflon-coated Lite fiction, we'd already be doing that (we already do do..."

May 17, 2011 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Woodsburner: A Novel

Jumping off from Thoreau

"...But what starts as a pulse-quickening work of historical fiction takes a turn to follow various characters affected by..."

May 1, 2009 Books Review by James Renovitch

Private Midnight

Private Midnight vaults from police procedural to erotic thriller to occult horror to philosophical tome

"...law enforcement only from reading high-end and pulp detective fiction. When it works, it's witty, culturally rich, and brutal..."

April 10, 2009 Books Review by Richard Whittaker

Indignation

Philip Roth's latest is a detail piece rather than a panorama

"...survey to find the single best work of American fiction of the past 25 years. Of 22 works cited,..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Books Review by John Davidson

Science-Fiction Wine?

Bonny Doon's Randall Grahm keeps winemaking weird

"...My assignment was to find a science-fiction wine. Wow! This was going to be tough. So..."

July 25, 2008 Food Column by Wes Marshall

Things That Came: It Might Be Science, But It Sure Ain't Fiction

'Videodrome' and 'They Live,' then and now

"...cinema of sci-fi. What we used to call science fiction, way back in the good old days of Red..."

July 25, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Five Science-Fiction Authors to Scan Darkly

ST 37 captain Scott Telles pulls five notables off the SF bookshelf.

"...This grand old man of British science fiction and part-time Bastrop resident was the editor of New..."

July 25, 2008 Music Feature by S.L. Telles

Foodie Fiction

"...sense of place in their work, more and more fiction writers are bringing food to the forefront. Granted, this..."

June 13, 1997 Food Feature

Top Fiction of 2020 for the Angry Girls

Rosalind Faires chooses several tales of righteous indignation

Dec. 18, 2020 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Texas Book Festival 2019:
All by Myself: Loneliness in Fiction

Kristen Arnett & Kevin Huizenga weigh in on frustration and isolation

Oct. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Barbara Purcell

Separating Fact From Fiction Regarding Austin's Homelessness Strategy

Aug. 2, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Stranger Than Fiction

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro

March 9, 2018 Screens Feature

Fact and Fiction Merge in Flesh and Blood

Mark Webber reflects on the man he's become

March 10, 2017 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

Gift Guide 2015: Fiction by Austin Authors

From Hill Country mysteries to Lone Star steampunk, fantasy femmes with swords to alienated runaways with lycanthropic tendencies, there's an Austin novel for everyone on your gift list

Dec. 11, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Kissing in America

Rabb's second YA novel features more than one love story, and they're all worth telling

Dec. 11, 2015 Arts Feature by Kimberley Jones

Hill Country Property

Passion, compromise, and human frailty figure large in this touching and funny Texas novel

Dec. 11, 2015 Arts Feature by Joe O'Connell

Bats of the Republic

An arcane tapestry of alternate cowboy history and steampunk sci-fi in a multitextured graphic package

Dec. 11, 2015 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Gwendolyn's Sword

A well-researched and swiftly paced historical novel for grown-up girls who dreamed of being knights

Dec. 11, 2015 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Science-Fiction Cinema

Break down the walls

Dec. 5, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Summer Fiction, Summer Not

Six new releases to kick back with this season

May 17, 2013 Books Feature by Monica Riese

Life After Life

Atkinson treats her interesting narratives with a light but steady hand

May 17, 2013 Books Feature by Amy Gentry

The Science Delusion

White takes aim at the bold targets of Richard Dawkins and Jonah Lehrer and their ilk

May 17, 2013 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Son

Imagine an aerial view of Texas, in which hidden elements of a huge, breathtaking landscape are suddenly made clear

May 17, 2013 Books Feature by Jaime deBlanc-Knowles

You

Follow along with a group of kids maturing along with the tech and gaming industry of the Eighties and Nineties

May 17, 2013 Books Feature by James Renovitch

And the Mountains Echoed

Khaled Hosseini's third novel resonates to the core

May 17, 2013 Books Feature by Jessi Cape

Red Moon

Benjamin Percy presents a heady mix of political allegory and urban fantasy

May 17, 2013 Books Feature by Josh Kupecki

Summer Fiction

Hackers, heretics, and spies, oh my

June 15, 2012 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Alif the Unseen

Maps to the Middle East: 'Alif the Unseen'

"...appropriate that it's G. Willow Wilson. As her previous (nonfiction) book The Butterfly Mosque relates, the author left her..."

June 15, 2012 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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