“He’ll explain to her the historical necessity of his act, its ultimate logic.”

John Willingham looks at what's lost in the translation to film.

Margaret A. Hagerman, sociologist and author of "White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America," says parents need to do more than talk to their kids to counter racism.

The many times Texas' leadership has failed us.

"fever-dream / of the Un-united States"

“I begin as a twitch in my father’s groin.“

“Jesus, Carrie. You look like summer.”

"Craftsmen lay out their hand-made dolls wearing ancient emperors’ robes and hats."

"Later / tonight, a baby will be put into my body by an act of love"

Can the long tradition of war prognostication in novel form be called honorable?

The many times Texas' leadership has failed us.

First short story collection by Austin musician and poet Harold Whit Williams.

"You eat steak, you want sex; you want sex, you want sex.”

"My folks sent me away to live with my Aunt Charlene and Uncle Bud in eastern Colorado the summer of 1969, praying I’d come back a reformed boy."

"And each time I’m reminded of my age / and that this is how it will be."

“I've heard ghosts down inside the stereo”

“And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it!”

"Our mothers were jeweled / in nose pins and brass hoops"