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Rick Perry and George W. Bush treat open records law as an obstacle to be gotten around, not a cornerstone of democracy.

There's a lot to chew on at this year's Texas Book Festival

Jerry Wexler

Before the presidency is anything else, it's a job – a job that requires a dash of corruption

A place where the ice age meets the modern world is an apt setting for Drury's story, one that toys with the idea that "time doesn't exist"

Global-warming skeptics get served

This follow-up to the critically acclaimed 'The Pleasing Hour' is a keen and forthright study of the inner workings of a family circle, which means it's excruciating to read – a strange compliment to bestow, but an apt one

Studiously neither pro-war nor anti-war, this 'anti-sending-me-to-war-book' rather too appropriately evidences reluctance to see actual combat, expending nearly two-thirds of its length establishing Ayers' coward credentials before setting off on the road to Baghdad.

Journalist George Crile believes that "something about Texas and its oil heritage seems to permit its citizens to reinvent their histories and to carry out their lives as if they were part of an ongoing theatrical experience." So, how does this relate to legendary Lufkin Congressman Charlie Wilson, the CIA, and Afghanistan?

New and Noteworthy

For nearly 30 years, Primarily Primates has offered a refuge for misplaced animals

Walter Prescott Webb Told Us So

Does It Come in Paperback?

The Austin-based author of Afoot in a Field of Men is afoot again

This odd, beautiful book from Lily Tuck is part memoir, part novel, part poetry, part historical quilt

Mark Bowden's book 'The Best Game Ever' delves into the game that put the NFL on the map

The netroots arrive in Austin next week ... and they're thriving

Michael Erard on Um ...: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders and What They Mean

Bush grants clemency - but it wasn't always this way.

Eric Schlosser on Richard Linklater's adaptation of his Fast Food Nation

The documentary photos of Donna DeCesare

Also Recommended

Slight when regarded as a contribution to the critical dialogue, Afterglow is more like a little jewel box that plays another chorus of Pauline Kael's passionate song.

H.W. Brands? The Age of Gold is just the latest in a long line of well-crafted history.