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April 17, 2024
A new book encourages Texans to rethink urban highways
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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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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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January 18, 2024
Remembering science fiction author Howard Waldrop
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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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September 29, 2023
An immigrant to ‘The Country of the Blind’
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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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September 7, 2023
‘Mexikid’ offers an illustrated view into a coming-of-age road trip story
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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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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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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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September 26, 2022
New book highlights 12 Texas dive bars – and distinguishes them from dumps
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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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September 6, 2022
Historian: America’s ‘Third Reconstruction’ has brought not just heartbreak but hope
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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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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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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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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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