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Like John Irving, Peter Hedges can create characters with such depth and originality it’s as if you have spent a lifetime in search of their company.

ABA President Barbara Thomas Steps Down

The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.

Notable Folks in Their Own Write

It used to be a commonplace of moralists that man was the only creature in the animal kingdom to slaughter his own kind. But as Chronicle writer Roger Gathman points out, kind is slaughtered by kind routinely among ants, salamanders, and, as any child can tell you, guppies. The golden rule, in nature, is not "do unto others" -- it is "why waste the protein?"

An interview with the PBS star about My American Dream

Buzz Aldrin, Kesha, Cory Booker, Cecile Richards, and more

It's time for the American South to reject its "rebel" hypocrisy of states rights and atone for the sins of the slave economy of the Confederacy.

Making a Place for Black Theatre in Austin

Long-held itch harvests the road, autobiography, and compassion

Steve Erickson's novel 'These Dreams of You' is a profound and hilarious salute to family values and America

Millions of Williamson County taxpayer dollars pour into a contractor's pocket, and no one seems to know why.

Reflections on Race in the NBA

Plus Midnighters bring the gore, and Alita party

Living the pop life in Austin

A New Drug for a New Millennium

A-bombs and b-movies were what you were interested in this year

As the Guardians of the Galaxy gather once more, every MCU film reviewed

The restaurant within Carpenter Hotel is a conceptual ode to German, Czech, and Texan cuisines

Joe Biden and Chris Dodd rise above the other primary candidates in terms of achievement and hands-on experience in what a president needs to know

An American reporter films his own murder in Oaxaca, and Mexican and U.S. authorities look the other way

"America Starts Here" shows how the pioneering artistic team of Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler made the overlooked visible

Thousands of Iraq War veterans will come home to face serious psychological problems and a system unready to help them

Our readers talk back.

"Alex Jones is to patriotism ... what hot dogs are to meat."

City approves $15 million toward Convention Center Hotel, which the city will own in 30 years.

The week in community happenings

The buzzy, the brave, the thrash-able twee-pop