Integrating the 40 Acres: The 50-Year Struggle for Racial Equality at the University of Texas; The Texas Book: Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University

Cen-Texts

"...50-Year Struggle for Racial Equality at the University of Texas..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Books Review by Lee Nichols

Big Mischief

Like the protagonist in his latest novel, Miss Spellbinder's Point of View, novelist Edward Swift is still battling the "disease of the literal minded."

"...late Sixties, when Swift first moved to Manhattan from Texas, they had to call a secret meeting to discuss..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Books Feature by Clay Smith

World of Books

The Fifth Annual Texas Book Festival

"...he was leaving the bookstore chain back in August, Texas writers paid attention. For years Hamrick had worked hard..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Books Feature by Dick Holland

The 50+ Books

"...Adventures With a Texas Naturalist, Roy Bedichek..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Books Feature

YA Novelist Elizabeth Acevedo Has No Room for Hopelessness

How the author of Clap When You Land and keynote speaker at the 2020 Texas Teen Book Festival writes toward the positive

"...to persuasively advocate for greater representation in young adult literature. She is adamant about the need for a more..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Arts Feature by Sara Hutchinson

Lecturers Sue to Block Campus Carry

Do Texas concealed handgun rules break the Second Amendment?

"...injured 32 more, campus carry comes into effect in Texas public universities. That is, unless three UT lecturers have..."

July 7, 2016 News Post by Richard Whittaker

In Real Life in Real Life

Cory Doctorow brings his newest work to the Texas Teen Book Festival

"...from the UK to be at this Saturday's jam-packed Texas Teen Book Festival at St. Edward's University. The man's..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

State Witnesses Continue to Show AG's Influence on HB 2 Testimony

Attorney General's office paid Rue $42,000 to assist witnesses

"...of trial in the suit to block sections of Texas’ abortion law, House Bill 2, the state continued to..."

Aug. 7, 2014 News Post by Mary Tuma

Remembrances of Raúl, Part Two

Remembrances of Raúl from Liliana Valenzuela, Francisco Aragón, and Rachel Jennings.

"...worked with him. Liliana Valenzuela, poet and translator, Austin, Texas: I remember Raúl Salinas coming up to me at..."

Feb. 23, 2008 News Post by Belinda Acosta

New Stories From the South: 2007 – The Year's Best

Isolation, family dysfunction, dogs, brutal weather, and regret

"...I've made a little specialty out of teaching Texas literature, and it troubles me. A good third of..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Books Review by Joe O'Connell

Recurring Character

Four Texas writers on fathers and sons

"...My dad worked in an oil refinery in Texas City for 35 years, was a strong union man..."

June 17, 2005 Books Feature

News/Print

The spring is dead. Long live the spring!

"...Resolution in the Southwest Texas State skirmish of words regarding Dagoberto Gilb: You might..."

May 2, 2003 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

Farm Aid

Community supported agriculture: the proof is in the produce, and Central Texas consumers are noticing

"...has a definite appeal to many consumers in Central Texas...."

Nov. 29, 2002 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

The Secret History

That a man from San Antonio named Richard Santos has as much to add to the world of Jewish intellectual pursuits as an attorney named Rosen is as fascinating as it should be obvious, David Garza writes after he attended the Texas Jewish Historical Society's 22nd annual gathering. For the first time, perhaps, an entirely constructive revision may be taking place in the history of those we call the "people of the Book."

"...ribald with the history of Catholic clerics at the Texas Jewish Historical Society's 22nd annual conference may not be..."

May 11, 2001 Books Feature by David Garza

Postscripts

Katherine Anne Porter would have turned 101 on May 15; details in Postscripts.

"...people?" That's one of the many treasures in From Texas to the World and Back: Essays on the Journeys..."

May 11, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Bringing Out the Dead

Swiss documentary maker Richard Dindo considers himself a "portraitist or biographer of those who are no longer with us." This week, he brings two films : about revolutionary Che Guevara and writer Jean Genet : to town as part of the Austin Film Society's Texas Documentary Tour.

"...Drafthouse on Wednesday, January 26, as part of the Texas Documentary Tour ... Ernesto "Che" Guevara: The Bolivian Diary..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

New Director on the Block

Rebecca Campbell and the Texas Documentary Tour

"...$80,000 to 31 emerging film and video artists of Texas during the first two years of the Texas Filmmakers'..."

June 5, 1998 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Left of Staid

UT's Texas Center for Writers Reading Series

"...But this is par for the course for UT's Texas Center for Writers' (TCW) campus reading series, which also..."

May 9, 1997 Books Feature by Marion Winik

Main Street, U.S.A.

Round Rock = Small Town, Texas?

"...Mays and Sheppard Avenues -- verily shouts Small Town, Texas. But murmuring beneath are whispers intimating that this might..."

Feb. 9, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin-Shot Oil Epic The Iron Orchard Gets Its First Trailer

First look at this story of West Texas oil field life and Houston greed

"...has been one of the great almost-made projects of Texas film and literature. Written by Tom Pendleton Van Zandt..."

Feb. 2, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Berlin

At last complete, Jason Lutes' graphic novel is a masterpiece

"...the 18-year history of creating this masterwork. And the Texas Book Festival has wisely invited Lutes to do just..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Arts Post by Jesse Sublett

SBOE Member Wants to “Deny Hispanics” Vote on Racist Mexican-American Textbooks

Education watchdog reveals e-mail exchange after public info request

"...One week after the Texas State Board of Education held a public hearing on..."

Sept. 21, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

The Truth About Alice

This tale of slut-shaming in a tiny Texas town is entertaining, but doesn't leave a lasting impact

"...and the rest of the tiny town of Healy, Texas, ever since the star quarterback told everyone that he..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Kamp

Early Voting Under Way

Time to cast ballots around the state

"...Good Monday morning, Texas. At 7am, if you are registered to vote, you..."

Oct. 18, 2010 News Post by Lee Nichols

SOB Tax Stripped Again

After second court defeat, Attorney General looks to Texas Supreme Court to revive "Titty Tax"

"...general has filed a petition for review with the Texas Supreme Court. Complaining that the judgment "constitutes an unprecedented..."

June 15, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Temples and Playgrounds

Previewing the 2007 Texas Book Festival, Nov. 3-4

"...next, put the three on the run in Central Texas, and you have the story's basic plot in motion...."

Nov. 2, 2007 Books Feature by Joe O'Connell

Postscripts

"...weird. September 25-October 1 is Banned Books Week 1999. Texas can be proud -- the Lindale school district recently..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

Short Cuts

"...hometown audience. The screening was a benefit for the Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund (TFPF), and the house was packed...."

Dec. 25, 1998 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Insane Inmate Deemed Too Ill to Murder

It took 20 years of litigation to figure out

"...the most clearly insane people in the history of Texas’ Death Row, was found too mentally ill to be..."

Sept. 29, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Turning the Page on the Year in Books

New works by Cormac McCarthy and Sarah Bird make for a memorable year in literature

"...and the End of a Junkyard Mafia (University of Texas Press, 224 pp., $21.95 [paper]). A writer of hard-boiled..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

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