Pillar of Salt

An Autobiography, with 19 Erotic Sonnets

Salvador Novo, Translated by Marguerite Feitlowitz, Introduction by Carlos Monsiváis

Salvador Novo (1904–1974) was a provocative and prolific cultural presence in Mexico City through much of the twentieth century. With his friend and fellow poet Xavier Villaurrutia, he cofounded Ulises and Contemporáneos, landmark avant-garde journals of the late 1920s and 1930s. At once “outsider” and “insider,” Novo held high posts... + More

One Hundred Love Sonnets

Cien sonetos de amor

By Pablo Neruda, Translated by Stephen Tapscott

“The happiness I feel in offering these to you is vast as a savanna,” Pablo Neruda wrote his adored wife, Matilde Urrutia de Neruda, in his dedication of One Hundred Love Sonnets. Set against the backdrop of his beloved Isla Negra, these joyfully sensual poems draw on the wind and... + More

Red Scare

Right-Wing Hysteria, Fifties Fanaticism, and Their Legacy in Texas

By Don Carleton

Winner of the Texas State Historical Association Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History, this authoritative study of red-baiting in Texas reveals that what began as a coalition against communism became a fierce power struggle between conservative and liberal politics.... + More

The Texas Bookshelf

Stephen Harrigan, Robert Abzug, Cecilia Ballí, Charlotte Canning, Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, Greg Curtis, Elizabeth Engelhardt, Roy Flukinger, Frank Guridy, Martha Menchaca, Karl Miller, Bill Minutaglio, Charles Ramírez Berg, Lawrence Speck, Shirley Thompson

The University of Texas Press announces a major new initiative unprecedented in publishing—The Texas Bookshelf. This project will be the most ambitious and comprehensive publishing endeavor about the culture and history of one state ever undertaken. The Bookshelf will comprise sixteen books and a companion website launching in 2017, all... + More