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Theroux has a knack for creative observations and clarity, as well as an undeniably vast knowledge of literature and sex

How many candidates really are trying to run for president?

Bush's Hollow Support for Veterans; and Vote for America With Your Consumer Dollars

As we approach the most pivotal election since 1860, the work of Stirling Silliphant comes to mind because he shows that our present situation was not created by 9 / 11 but has been brewing for a long time

Shard Live Performance Collective's original production Political Asylum creates a vision of everyday chaos through asylum bars

"Mediocrity is never passive; it avenges itself for its deprivation." -- Nelson Algren

High-strung, hot-tempered Tom Miller made self-interest -- and his feuds with LBJ -- into Austin history.

Everybody's doing it -- devouring Holes, that is, this year's selection for citywide reading.

Roger Gathman talks to Jonathan Safran Foer about the author's unconscious grasp of the Jewish literary tradition.

Our readers talk back.

One week before the election, Michael Ventura examines the candidates’ campaigns and finds that Nader played to our fear of consequences, Gore to our fear of intelligence, and Bush to our fear of complexity.

UT professor Horace Newcomb reflects on the segregation South on the release of his friend and colleague Paul Stekler's documentary George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire.

Short reviews of recently published books.

Local Author Roger Boylan

An Interview with James Ellroy

Letters at 3AM

Our readers talk back.

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?"

Whose truth prevails at Austin's Catholic high school?

Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis

Clementine Hall was the 13th Floor Elevators' hip, maternal Wendy, providing food and security for the band's tribe of Lost Boys

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

The Supreme Court ratifies the Texas GOP majority with a shrug

The future of U.S. politics may become, "Vote for Show, Map for Dough"

Barbara Leaming's new biography makes the case that Jackie O suffered from PTSD