Books

April 17, 2024

A new book encourages Texans to rethink urban highways

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A blue hardcover book with the title "Texas, Being: A State of Poems"
April 10, 2024

‘Texas, Being’ explores the state’s real and emotional landscapes in poetry

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April 9, 2024

Dallas’ elusive ‘King of Diamonds’ jewel thief is subject of new book

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April 1, 2024

Two decades later, photographer James Evans revisits his book ‘Big Bend Pictures’

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A photo montage showing Carolyn Pfeiffer working with different stars and artists.
March 21, 2024

Carolyn Pfeiffer was there for some of the greatest moments in cinema and (almost) music

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March 18, 2024

‘Unmasking the Klansman’ tells story of white supremacist who posed as Cherokee author

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February 13, 2024

‘The book is doing its spirit work’: Sandra Cisneros wonders how she got so lucky

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A man sits at a table, looking down at his hands. A sign on the table identifies him, reading "Howard Waldrop."
January 18, 2024

Remembering science fiction author Howard Waldrop

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A photo of the Space Shuttle Atlantis seen in orbit around a cloudy blue Earth, below.
January 16, 2024

New book tracks NASA’s Space Shuttle program – perhaps its ‘most important’ era thus far

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January 1, 2024

Want to read more books in 2024? We’ve got some suggestions for you.

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December 19, 2023

‘Narcas’ author: Women are more involved in drug cartels than we think

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December 18, 2023

Tyler Campbell talks overcoming adversity, shares another side of his famous father

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December 15, 2023

Charlie Alcorn has the newest Texas road novel — and it’s about football, too

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December 13, 2023

‘My Grief Is Not Like Yours’ details the challenges of life after tragedy

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December 12, 2023

How the story of Kathy Leissner Whitman shows link between mass shootings and domestic violence

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December 6, 2023

Have a question about Texas? The answer’s in the almanac

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November 24, 2023

Buying books as gifts this holiday season? Texas Standard is here to help

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November 17, 2023

Children’s book ‘Big’ explores the impact words can have on young minds

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November 16, 2023

Exploring ‘All That Rises’ and the literary heritage of the Texas-Mexico border

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November 8, 2023

Want to get into reading romance? We asked NYT bestselling author Ali Hazelwood for some tips

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November 6, 2023

Award-winning author Elizabeth Crook takes readers though the Texas frontier in ‘The Madstone’

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October 25, 2023

Commentary: On censorship

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October 24, 2023

‘Cemetery Birding’ highlights why hobbyists are flocking to cemeteries across Texas

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October 19, 2023

‘Valley Of Shadows’ mixes classic Western with magical realism for a memorable tale

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October 12, 2023

Texas state parks’ history celebrated in centennial book

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October 5, 2023

‘If somebody is in trouble, you help’: Author Luis Alberto Urrea recounts his mother’s WWII story in new novel

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The book cover of "Country of the Blind" is seen. It's a white cover with the title and author name in the middle. Illustrations of individuals using walking sticks, wheelchairs, seeing-eye dogs, and black glasses intersperse in the background engaged in various activities – walking, rollerblading and conversing with each other.
September 29, 2023

An immigrant to ‘The Country of the Blind’

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Lalena Fisher wears a yellow dress and smiles for the camera holding her large, square children's book.
September 26, 2023

This Texas children’s book author is making math fun with infographics

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September 26, 2023

A battle over what is obscene and what is censorship continues at Midland libraries

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The book cover for Mexikid is seen. It features a cartoon drawing of the author as a kid, surrounded animals and other motifs from the journey depicted in the book, including pop rocks candy, cacti, and a peso. A quote from a review at the top reads "poignant and laugh-out-loud funny."
September 7, 2023

‘Mexikid’ offers an illustrated view into a coming-of-age road trip story

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The cover for the book "After Botham" is seen, which shows a framed portrait of Botham Jean, a young Black man smiling in a suit and a pair of praying hands in the foreground. The nails of the hand are painted red, which suggests they may be those of Jean's sister, Allisa, who co-authored the book.
September 6, 2023

New memoir looks at Botham Jean the person, as remembered by his sister

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August 29, 2023

Texas author LaToya Watkins pulls from her box of characters in ‘Holler, Child’

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August 28, 2023

New book chronicles the story of two Texas conscientious objector combat medics in Vietnam

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August 23, 2023

Book highlights the first Black families that settled in North Texas after emancipation

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August 9, 2023

‘Ode to Hip-Hop’ reflects on the genre’s journey from the underground to the mainstream

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August 3, 2023

The historical accuracy of ‘Lonesome Dove’

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July 31, 2023

YA book centers around a queer San Antonio love story

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A row of books are seen with their spines facing up.
July 27, 2023

‘Unconstitutionally vague’: A group of booksellers is taking Texas to court over HB 900

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July 27, 2023

How to make money from your old comic collection

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July 18, 2023

New book ‘Astros and Asterisks’ delves into 2017 sign-stealing scandal

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July 13, 2023

New book examines the TV sitcom’s role in queer liberation – from ‘Bewitched’ to ‘Modern Family’

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July 5, 2023

New book gives bird’s-eye view of the secrets and lore surrounding owls

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June 26, 2023

Tim Hagerty’s ‘Tales From the Dugout’ chronicles minor league baseball’s peculiar moments

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June 22, 2023

Celebrate Pride Month with these LGBTQ+ books with a Texas edge

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June 21, 2023

New YA novel revisits Wendy Davis’ abortion filibuster through the eyes of a teenage boy

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June 20, 2023

New book explores Houston’s ongoing battle against water amid unchecked growth

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June 19, 2023

New novel ‘Night Wherever We Go’ centers on the collective defiance of six enslaved women in Texas

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June 16, 2023

Cormac McCarthy’s deep Texas ties: ‘For him, it was a whole new world’

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June 12, 2023

‘Evan and His Dog’ join Abilene’s Storybook Garden for children’s literacy festival

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June 6, 2023

New book explores 50 most influential Texans from over the past half century

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May 22, 2023

The ‘fires, floods, explosions and bloodshed’ that make Texas whiskey what it is today

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May 10, 2023

‘You Will Never Be One of Us,’ shows how a small town teacher’s fight in 1975 is relevant today

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May 4, 2023

‘A universal thing we’re all going to go through’: Texas author explores mourning, grief in new book

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April 25, 2023

South Texas folk tales inspire latest book from Corpus Christi author Diana López

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April 24, 2023

Deconstructing the ‘myth of the broke millennial’

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April 21, 2023

New book celebrates the natural diversity of the Texas Hill Country

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April 5, 2023

New book digs deeper into tragedy of six children killed by their adoptive parents

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March 24, 2023

New anthology reimagines the works of William Shakespeare in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands

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March 14, 2023

A Houston doctor discusses how to fix the healthcare system for the uninsured

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March 2, 2023

Indie bookstores are booming in North Texas – and a Grapevine store is the latest edition

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A row of books are seen with their spines facing up.
March 1, 2023

Why the federal government blocked the merger of two book publishers

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February 7, 2023

New book examines the significance of Lawrence v. Texas, which paved the way for LGBTQ+ rights

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January 31, 2023

30 years after the siege at Mount Carmel in Waco, can we learn from what happened?

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January 27, 2023

Turning every page: Exploring the relationship between Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

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January 20, 2023

New book highlights experience of Arab asylum seekers basing their cases on their gender or sexuality

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January 19, 2023

‘Vitamina C for Cultura’ preschool book shares Mexican-American language and imagery lacking in the genre

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January 12, 2023

Historians fact-check our country’s foundational stories in ‘Myth America’

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January 10, 2023

Losing focus? A new book explores our shrinking attention spans and how to improve them

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December 23, 2022

New book explores the link between mental health and metabolic conditions

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November 28, 2022

A vaquero’s life and sometimes last moments, chronicled in new book of art, prose and poetry

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November 25, 2022

Texas Standard for Nov. 25, 2022: A literary look back at the year so far

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November 18, 2022

‘The right person to break that ceiling’: New biography honors legacy of sportscaster Phyllis George

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November 16, 2022

Wendi Aarons embraces middle age and her life in Texas

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November 14, 2022

Texas Monthly serves up a cookbook as varied as the state’s cuisine

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November 3, 2022

‘Undocumented Motherhood’ explores family separation, challenges in healthcare access

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October 24, 2022

New book goes back to the roots to understand current revolution in Black country music

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October 13, 2022

‘It was a lot of fun because we had each other’: Musician Margo Price writes about lean times on the way up in new memoir

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October 12, 2022

‘Yonderings’ may be the best travel guide for Big Bend

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October 11, 2022

New book highlights stories of unknown professional baseball players

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October 10, 2022

New book draws attention to struggles facing boys and men

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October 4, 2022

‘I’ve seen a ghost, but I don’t believe in ghosts’: Texas author’s new story collection aims to leave readers haunted

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A photo of the inside of a small bar with piñatas hanging from the ceiling and memorabilia covering the walls. Three people are gathered around the counter as a bartender helps them.
September 26, 2022

New book highlights 12 Texas dive bars – and distinguishes them from dumps

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a three-story concrete and glass office building
September 16, 2022

The rise of YouTube: From scruffy startup to world domination

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September 15, 2022

‘Where Wonder Grows’ is a journey through the magic of grandma’s backyard

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September 12, 2022

Is ‘rewilding’ the future of conservation?

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September 8, 2022

Mary Beth Rogers reflects on serving under Ann Richards, the importance of representation, and hope

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A hardcover copy of the book "The Third Reconstruction" rests against a backdrop of potted flowers. The cover of the book is dark blue with a red fist image on it.
September 6, 2022

Historian: America’s ‘Third Reconstruction’ has brought not just heartbreak but hope

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A photo of the hardcover book on a pink and blue striped background. The book cover shows to young people casually holding hands.
August 31, 2022

Why this Texas author wrote a book about a bisexual Chicano teen he’s sure will be banned

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a photo of the hardcover book "Perish" by LaToya Watkins. The book is lying on a colorful quilt. The book cover includes an image of a tree with sprawling branches and roots.
August 23, 2022

LaToya Watkins’ first novel ‘Perish’ is rooted in Texas and inspired by stories that haunted her

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August 16, 2022

The ‘Secret City’: How homophobia shaped national politics during the Cold War

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August 3, 2022

What the success of Texans Kyler Murray and Patrick Mahomes says about football – and America

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People in a radio studio, seated for an interview
August 2, 2022

New book ‘Rag Radio Interviews’ showcases voices from era of underground newspapers – and beyond

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July 26, 2022

New book ‘More City Than Water’ maps out the different tolls flooding takes on communities in Houston

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July 19, 2022

In new book, San Antonio native explains ‘how Sikh wisdom can transform your life’

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July 14, 2022

Author Andrea Mosqueda on representation for queer youth in the Rio Grande Valley

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July 12, 2022

New memoir ‘My Boy Will Die of Sorrow’ aims to challenge how immigration is viewed in the U.S.

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June 23, 2022

New book from Texas author and coach asks: What does it really mean to be tough?

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June 22, 2022

Texas State alumna debuts children’s book ‘celebrating the love of San Marcos’

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A wide-shot photo shows criss-crossing elevators in a two-level mall.
June 15, 2022

Not just nostalgia: An argument for reconsidering the mall

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June 10, 2022

‘Bad Mexicans’ shines a light on rebels who challenged social systems in early 20th century

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