May 20, 2019
The Indigenous Canela of Brazil inhabit a vibrant multispecies community of nearly 3,000 people and over 300 types of cultivated and wild plants living together in a biome threatened with… READ MORE
May 6, 2019
Immigration policy, enforcement, and reform has dominated national discourse in the United States for many years. Vital research on trends, institutions, and policies that could be most impactful in this… READ MORE
September 24, 2018
Written by leading scholars of the Iranian diaspora, the original essays in Mohsen Mostafavi Mobasher’s new book The Iranian Diaspora: Challenges, Negotiations, and Transformations seek to understand and describe how Iranians in… READ MORE
August 13, 2018
By Deborah L. Jaramillo, author of The Television Code: Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry. Revisiting early debates about TV content and censorship from industry and government perspectives, Deborah L. Jaramillo’s book recounts… READ MORE
January 17, 2018
By Erik Ching The United States’s decision to revoke TPS (Temporary Protected Status) from some 200,000 Salvadorans living in the United States is morally repugnant. The gap between moral accountability… READ MORE
November 7, 2017
Bookstores have always been a locus of ideas, but in the months since the hateful rhetoric and racial violence surrounding the 2016 election, they have become a place of refuge… READ MORE
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
