May 31, 2017
This week, Travis Audubon is sponsoring an exclusive book launch for Victor Emanuel’s new book One More Warbler: A Life with Birds, in partnership with the University of Texas Press. Victor, the founder… READ MORE
May 2, 2017
To celebrate Alison Macor’s lively biography of the screenwriter Warren Skaaren, we’re highlighting the surprising impact and short life of one of Hollywood’s highest-paid writers. Although he rarely left Austin… READ MORE
March 28, 2017
By Adam Sobsey The lead and title track on the new Pretenders album, Alone—sorry, let’s back up a little. Did you know the Pretenders still exist? They released their tenth studio… READ MORE
October 11, 2016
By Lloyd Sachs It’s well neigh impossible these days to come across a mention of T Bone Burnett that doesn’t begin with “great” or “visionary” or “legendary.” No argument here…. READ MORE
July 7, 2016
Diana Kennedy doesn’t suffer fools. As the world’s preeminent authority on authentic Mexican cooking and one of its best-known food writers, she is renowned for her uncompromising insistence on using the correct… READ MORE
May 17, 2016
Did we as a culture ask for Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising? Is Hollywood’s alleged addiction to remakes, reboots, sequels, and other ‘multiplicities’ anything new? We asked three media studies scholars to… READ MORE
February 26, 2014
This Sunday, Ellen DeGeneres will host the 86th Academy Awards. DeGeneres and her career comprises a full chapter of Linda Mizejewski’s new book Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics. Other chapters… READ MORE
May 15, 2013
With the new series Bates Motel airing on A&E this spring, Hitchcock’s seminal film Psycho is re-emerging in popular culture. The show follows a young Norman Bates and his mother in a ‘contemporary prequel’… READ MORE
