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For those of you who are still pondering the eternal question that seems to arise wherever beer and English majors appear together in the Lone Star State, the answer is: Texas does indeed have a separate and distinctive literature, Tom Doyal writes. If you have been arguing the other side of this proposition, the writers and publishers of Texas have issued you a sharp rebuke in their new spring releases.

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."

UT cannot get away

Colonialism, distilleries, potations, and probity

Q&A with José R. Ralat, the man with one of the most envied titles in town

PBS's 'History Detectives' tackle Austin's biggest mystery: the unsolved string of killings in 1885

Traveling exhibit reexamines border killings

Austin director Tim Tsai shares a murder on the Gulf

From R.L. Stine to Reza Aslan, 225-plus converge on the Capitol

Book chronicling state baseball history drops the ball

Longhorns versus Horned Frogs Super Regional rematch preview

Dan Rather, Jeffrey Eugenides, the Bush sisters, and 291 more

Alamo gala honors Texas notables

The story behind the iconic photo and the iconic bakery that's in it

Remembering Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, the first white Texan.

The David Fisher-Todd Staples Senate Contest in East Texas Will Decide the Fate of the State Senate -- and the U.S. House

Doc explores fight to de-list homosexuality as mental illness

All 150 authors announced for the 25th anniversary lit celebration

HBO docuseries screens at AFS Cinema this weekend

We return to the Red River strip of March 1966 to witness Roky Erickson and crew

Central Texas voters can help transform deep-red education panel

Central Texas voters can help transform deep-red education panel

In his history of Esther's Follies, author Jesse Sublett follows the flow of four decades of frivolity

Learn the (Texas) state of all things university with these hacks

American Assoc. of Law Libraries bans TX because of discrimination

But is it here to stay?

Titles From Texas

With the State Board of Education updating our history curriculum, we have an opportunity now to highlight Asian American narratives for future generations of Texas students