"The photo is shocking: A massive sea turtle lies dead in the back of a pickup truck, its speckled front flippers so big they stretched far beyond the width of the vehicle."

Russell Arben Fox reviews Charles Marohn's Strong Towns for San Antonio Review.

Dispelling the Dementors of Grad School

The most tragic irony of all: the religious right professes brotherly love but looks to a prophet of hate and instruments of death for its salvation.

Elaina Foley ponders the queer possibilities of rot in disrupting articulations of preservation as care.

"A reminder to us all"

Musician-poet-author Harold Whit Williams reviews authentic jukebox honky-tonk from Austin Leonard Jones.

"you felt hibiscus tall"

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.