Rough Country looks at religion’s influence on Texas politics and the ways in which the state’s geography and culture have affected its dominant religions.
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Anyone hoping for Lee Atwater-style revelations about the inner workings of a party’s ascendance will be disappointed in Red State.
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Most people don’t think beyond New York and its Abstract Expressionists when discussing Modernism. Midcentury Modern Art in Texas seeks to rectify that.
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If we want to maintain the kind of thoughtful, reflective, curious minds that engineered the Internet in the first place, it’s time to face up to what reading online is doing to our brains.
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The Observer reviews Michael Morton’s memoir, “Getting Life.”
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New Border Voices, a collection of stories, poems and essays, reflects the variegated narratives found in a third space that is neither Texas nor Mexico.
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The Observer reviews René Steinke’s third novel, Friendswood.
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Writer Ling Ma wins our 2014 Short Story Contest with “Fuzhou Nighttime Feeling.”
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Today we present the fourth of four Texas Observer Short Story Contest finalists, Elizabeth Jackson’s “Behind and Past and Front and Ahead,” which explores the inner life of a “fantastical narcissist.”
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Jennifer Whitney documents the effects of cuts to women’s health-care and family-planning funding and access with a focus on the Rio Grande Valley.
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