Hear Me Out: Taylor and Travis Need to Get Married in Texas
It’s official: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged, and this Texan couldn’t be happier. Not because either comes from here—Swift grew up in Pennsylvania, and Kelce’s from Ohio—but beca...
In El Paso, Military Machinery Stares Down an Empty Border
Driving south on El Paso’s Texas Highway Loop 375, which hugs the Rio Grande, I caught sight of something that’s become familiar to the city’s residents: a massive, eight-wheeled armored vehicle...
We’ll Always Have the River Walk
Sentimental journeys are often more easily imagined than taken. So it was with my recent trip to San Antonio, my hometown. My sister-in-law Alison, one of the kindest people I’ve ever known, had exp...
An East Texas–Set Western Tests the Limits of the Genre
James Wade emerged from his truck in a straw cowboy hat and a pearl-snap shirt, looking very much the part of a Hill Country writer of hard-boiled western fiction. At 37, he’s published five novels ...