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Zach Theatre's fine staging should be required viewing at this historic moment

Diving right in with Tab Hunter

Who links the JFK assassination and A Scanner Darkly?

Documentary filmmaker Marc Levin investigates the reasons for the recent renaissance of American anti-Semitism; sadly, the end result is scattershot and never really elucidates or poses solutions to the problem.

Excerpt from Kevin Phinney's 'Souled American'

Based loosely – very loosely – on the Seventies German film actress and cabaret singer of the same name, Ingrid Caven's is a world psychologically damaged, and perpetually haunted, by the horrors of the 20th century

UT composer Dan Welcher commemorates JFK: The Voice of Peace 40 years after the President's scheduled visit to Austin.

Anyone who needs reminding of the glory that was film noir, and the belly flop that was 1960s cinema, need only rent the Criterion Collection's 2-DVD set of Ernest Hemingway's The Killers, filmed in 1946 and 1964 by Robert Siodmak and Don Siegel, respectively.

Savlov goes South by

Has Walter Mosley's seventh novel in the Easy Rawlins series lived up to its predecessors? Jesse Sublett lets you know in his review of Bad Boy Brawly Brown.

Noise ordinance debate blows over -- for now -- while Internet radio crisis threatens, and SIMS crisis subsides.

In Thomas Mallon's new nonfiction book, the strangest figure in the JFK assassination is the most honest one.

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

Our readers talk back.

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

Richard Linklater and John Pierson Ponder 'Slacker' and Its Aftermath

They don't normally let dogs in the LBJ Library and Museum, but after Chronicle writer Jesse Sublett explained that he was talking about James Ellroy, the demon dog of American literature, they graciously made an exception.

Dick Holland assesses two Texas journalists, Gary Cartwright and Jan Reid, whose new collections of articles possess a cautionary wisdom, the kind you acquire when you court danger and danger provides you with a keen view of what lies beyond.

If you were young, talented, and a little crazy in the old Austin, you may have answered to the bizarre title of "Mad Dog."

It's been over a decade since Slacker premiered at the Dobie Theater. Since then, the lifestyle it celebrated is largely gone, along with the locations it helped make famous. In this "Slacker map," we look at what's disappeared and what's endured.

Upcoming events in Austin's literary life.

Using a legion of artists from the early Sixties, the Austin Museum of Art exhibition "The New Frontier: Art and Television 1960-65" offers an illuminating peep into a time when a measly 10-inch black-and-white TV set was the American family's window to the world.

Kathy McCarty wants to know "Why?" Why is wanting to know more about the Kennedy Assassination such social suicide?

Features Editor Kate Messer offers thanks for Dallas' peaceful Thanks-Giving Square

It was with high expectations of low class that Stephen MacMillan Moser embarked upon the latest crop of books about Jackie O. But shortly into it, he found himself thinking, "Where's the dirt?"