Texas Monthly
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Slowly Converging Paths: A Conversation with Nate Blakeslee
Nate Blakeslee discusses American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West, cultivating trust in his sources, and recreating action-packed scenes he did not witness.
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Separate Shores
Down at Texas Monthly, Domingo Martinez riffs on South Padre’s (regrettable) legacy: Now, spring break in South Texas is not what it is elsewhere. Here it’s less a quantifiable series of days on a calendar before you return to class…
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Seeing Double
Over at Texas Monthly, Jeff Salamon chats with Attica Locke, mystery novelist, unassuming Houstonian, and Hollywood titan. They touch on code-switching, freelancing, and writing the gun scenes “all wrong”: Black people have seen two versions of ourselves on TV: we are…
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Word of the Day: Silvicide
(n.); a special pesticide intended for killing unwanted trees and other brush It was the kind of horrific end no one could have imagined for the demure Harkey matriarch … her death represented the final, sordid unraveling of one of…
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The Repercussions of Modern-Day Witch Trials
We like to think mass hysteria about black magic in the US died with the Salem witch trials, but 300 years afterward, starting in the 1980s, childcare providers across the country were accused of “Satanic abuse.” One such case involved…
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The Stockholm Syndrome of Sexual Assault
For Slate, Amanda Hess examines yet another first-person confessional: sexual assault victim Jenny Kutner’s essay “The Other Side of the Story,” published in Texas Monthly. The power of Kutner’s story is that it lends insight into a particular type of victimization—the kind…
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When Hippies and Rednecks Joined Forces
I can’t tell you how much these guys scared Nashville. Texans didn’t know who was boss. Texas Monthly has a must-read oral history of the creation of a new type of country music in Austin in the ’70s. Musicians like…