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Roar of the Crowd: December 2023
Reader letters published in our December 2023 issue.
Reader letters published in our December 2023 issue.
The latest issue of Texas Monthly features more than the usual number of Texans committing creative acts of altruism.
A celebration of beloved neighborhood restaurants—and the many folks who cover food for Texas Monthly.
Reader letters published in our November 2023 issue.
Starting in this issue, you’ll find visual delight from the first page to the last—and a whole new section.
Reader letters published in our October 2023 issue.
A Texas Monthly reader quiz, based on all the stories in our August 2023 issue.
Reader letters published in our September 2023 issue.
A Texas Monthly reader quiz, based on all the stories in our July 2023 issue.
Reader letters published in our August 2023 issue.
He’s surfed in Waco, skied in College Station, and braved a karaoke bar where Texas lawmakers serenaded one another.
Decades of his dogged reporting are receiving well-deserved recognition.
Reader letters published in our July 2023 issue.
A new true crime podcast from Texas Monthly, coming June 20.
Meet our executive producer Megan Creydt, who’s shepherding dozens of the magazine’s stories to the silver screen.
Reader letters published in our June 2023 issue.
Meet Texas Monthly executive editor (and travel and lifestyle guru) Kathy Blackwell.
Reader letters published in our May 2023 issue.
You’ve had all month to read the latest issue of Texas Monthly. Take this monthly quiz and we’ll tell you how you stack up at the end.And if you got this quiz from a friend: Hello! We hope you enjoy it. If you do: become a subscriber today, and we’ll send
Reader letters published in our April 2023 issue.
Meet Texas Monthly’s photo editor, Claire Hogan.
You’ve had all month to read the latest issue of Texas Monthly. Take this monthly quiz and we’ll tell you how you stack up at the end.And if you got this quiz from a friend: Hello! We hope you enjoy it. If you do: become a subscriber today, and we’ll send
Reader letters published in our March 2023 issue.
Mimi Swartz’s latest epic is a must-read tale of a decades-long attempt to sabotage Texas’s public schools.
You’ve had all month to read the latest issue of Texas Monthly. Take this monthly quiz and we’ll tell you how you stack up at the end.And if you got this quiz from a friend: Hello! We hope you enjoy it. If you do: become a subscriber today, and we’ll send
National Book Award finalist Domingo Martinez was optimistic about Musk and SpaceX in 2016. Now, he says, “it feels like we sold our souls.”
The writer of an oddball 2016 crime story recalls emailing with an accountant who skimmed $17 million from Corsicana’s Collin Street Bakery.
In reporting how Candy Montgomery came to murder her lover’s wife, the authors recall trying to capture a “time and place in Texas history.”
When I started writing for Texas Monthly in 1973, I didn’t expect it to last very long. But it’s still here, five decades later.
On the occasion of our fiftieth anniversary, we reflect on how far we’ve come—and where we’re headed.
Fifty years ago, Texas Monthly was little more than an idea dreamt up by a local lawyer with minimal experience in journalism. Then it was an actual thing. How did that happen?
The career criminal was found dead after a two-day manhunt in East Texas. A writer recalls reporting on the circumstances of Haynes’s death.
A writer remembers how a chance conversation at a food festival led to her classic 2014 oral history on Southwestern cuisine.
Reader letters published in our January 2023 issue.
Meet the folks behind our latest audio project, which grapples with the complicated legacy of the Texas Rangers.
The author of a 2014 Texas Monthly profile of King George explains why it was among the few stories in his career that made him cry while writing.
You’ve had all month to read the latest issue of Texas Monthly. How much can you remember?
Sterry Butcher on the path that led her to move to Marfa and find God “in the details” while writing about rural Texas.
Pamela Colloff reflects on her 2010 story about the shoddy police work and prosecutorial misconduct that put an innocent man on death row.
Go behind the scenes with the inventive force shaping our photography and design.
Author S. C. Gwynne calls his 2009 profile of the pirate-obsessed former Texas Tech coach part of the “golden era” of his journalism career.
Reader letters published in our December 2022 issue.
John Bloom, a.k.a. Joe Bob Briggs, discusses his 2004 opus on the making of the slasher classic and the New York bias against a Texas original.
Coming November 15, a tale of the Texas Rangers . . . and a battle for the soul of Texas.
You’ve had all month to read the latest issue of Texas Monthly. How much can you remember?
The Texas Monthly writer reflects on the run-down home that led him to write “Still Life,” about John McClamrock, the boy who could not move.
Meet the editors and writers behind our award-winning food coverage.
Reader letters published in our November 2022 issue.
A man approached Cecilia Ballí and asked, “Are you looking for work?” It shook her—and helped her grasp the danger in early-aughts Juárez.
Will Van Overbeek's images, with words by Oscar-winning screenwriter and Texas A&M alum and proud Aggie Al Reinert, were "good bull."