Books
March 1, 1991
A Lovers’ Knot
The Raven’s Bride sheds new light on the scandal that set Tennessee governor Sam Houston on the road to Texas.
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Books
December 1, 1990
Back in the Saddle
Larry McMurtry returns to the mythic West and spins a thoughtful and touching tale.
Books
August 31, 1990
Remember the Alamo?
A new assault on Texas’ most cherished myth proves that the Battle of the Alamo is far from over.
Climate
April 1, 1990
Trouble, Trash, and Texas
Twenty years after the first Earth Day celebration, environmentalists are once again trying to get Texans interested in saving the planet. There are good reasons why they may once again fail.
Books
December 1, 1989
Continental Drift
Five beautifully produced books explore the Americas, from anonymous folk art to the great muralists, from revolutionary heroes to a Texas ranching patriarch.
Books
September 30, 1989
Whistling in the Dark
Larry McMurtry explores the far side of forty in his new novel.
Books
August 31, 1989
The Way of the Buffalo
Dallas novelist C. W. Smith takes a long, hard look at a subject with a painful history.
Books
May 31, 1989
Moving On
Dave Hickey’s fine short stories are enhanced by the scarcity; Texas expatriate William Humphrey takes on the Cherokees’ Trail of Tears.
Books
March 1, 1989
Days in the Country, Nights on the Town
New fiction takes the reader on forays into Louisiana swamps, excursions into smoke-filled Austin honky-tonks, and down life’s highway with a lady trucker
Books
November 1, 1988
Hasty Copy
Dan Jenkins’ latest takes a tough-cookie journalist out of a thirties movie and puts her into a chase through Depression-era Fort Worth; Sarah Glasscock populates her fictional Alpine with a cast of real characters.
Books
September 30, 1988
The Old West, the New South
In Anything for Billy, Larry McMurtry trounces the Western myth; Frederick Barthelme, in Two Against One, casts a cold eye on a self-desdtructing marriage.
Being Texan
September 1, 1988
Air Conditioning? Who Needs It?
It’s this simple: people’s teeth should not chatter in the summer.
Travel & Outdoors
October 1, 1987
Autumn Leaves
Turn off the AC, stop pretending you’re a reptile, welcome the whooping cranes back. It’s fall!
Being Texan
February 1, 1986
Texas Primer: The Grand Champion Steer
Tastes in livestock are as whimsical as tastes in fashion. This year petite is in.
Farm and Ranch
April 1, 1985
Where’s the Lamb?
After extensive taste tests, our reporter concludes that the best lamb is to be found in our own back yard.
Travel & Outdoors
April 1, 1985
The Bluebonnet Snapshot
Okay, so photos of cute kids in fields of bluebonnets aren’t great art. That’s not the point at all.
Art
January 1, 1985
“Take Nothing and Make Something”
Working alone at his home in East Texas, Fox Harris is divinely inspired to create towering, fanciful sculptures out of junk.
News & Politics
September 30, 1984
Dust to Dust
The cattle are dying, the grass is gone, the ranchers are selling their land. The center of Texas is in a drought that may be the worst in a hundred years.
Reporter
June 30, 1984
Texas Monthly Reporter
A meditation on the radioactive peril in Juarez.
Critters
June 1, 1984
The Wild Side of Town
You don’t have to go to the country or the zoo to see wild animals; there are lizards in downtown buildings, gators in the creeks, and deer in the parking lots.
Weather
March 1, 1984
I-10 On Ice
In five hours on icy roads the author covered 35 miles and discovered the perils of driving in a state that is unprepared for real winter.
Reporter
January 1, 1984
Texas Monthly Reporter
Damming the Rio Grande; cruising the streets of Houston; building the nation's biggest organ; remembering the Alamo.
Reporter
August 31, 1983
Texas Monthly Reporter
Texas highways show their age; Houston punks show their colors; foster parents show they care; A&M shows its macaws; cattle ranchers show their breeding.
Travel & Outdoors
June 1, 1983
Phantom Cat of the Valley
Meet the ocelot, not as pet, not as fur coat, but in its best role—an elusive remnant of Texas’ wild past.
Politics & Policy
March 1, 1983
Friends In Deed
Meet some of Texas' secular latter-day saints: volunteers.
Being Texan
August 31, 1982
Texas Primer: Mesquite
It looks fragile with its lacy leaves and fragrant flowers. Looks can be deceptive.
Environment
November 1, 1981
Chucking the Piney Woods
Some people look at the Piney Woods and see paper plates and two-by-fours; others see the last great stands of forest in Texas.
Critters
October 1, 1981
Bats!
They’re ugly little things, but you’ve got to respect them.
Travel & Outdoors
June 1, 1981
The Year of the Flower
What’s behind this year’s rampant display of wild flowers? The birds and the bees, of course.
Travel & Outdoors
April 1, 1981
Tenting Tonight
How you can—and why you should—go camping in the middle of the week.
Art
April 1, 1979
The Dark at the End of the Tunnel
Houston’s Museum of Fine Art resurrects the genius of Mark Rothko. James Surls tries to answer the tricky question: what is Texas art? Amarillo hosts five pioneers of American photography.