Dark Tome
Early on in Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow’s Texas horror classic Near Dark (1987), a Winnebago speeds across a dusty Lone Star landscape. The dingy RV...
Take a Shelfie
For the most part, summer is a great time to catch up on reading. There’s no Game of Thrones or other bingeable TV or even...
Diverse, Death
I have lived on the Central Texas coast my entire life, and the horrors here are endless. From sightings of the infamous chupacabra to...
Monkey Wrench
Sometimes you read books that are powerful and evocative in a way you don’t see coming. Stuff that shakes you awake, challenges you, and...
Reconciling the Past
Though the TCU administration embraces diversity, the student population remains predominantly white — 65%, to be precise. School leaders have taken steps in recent years...
Poolside Page-Turners
Since 1947, TCU Press has filled an important niche in the literary world by commissioning and publishing books that the large houses may not...
Confederacy of Suns
How many literary references does it take to screw in a light bulb?
That’s easy. Less than it takes to screw up a book review.
The...
Fall-Ball Reading this Summer
Admittedly, I’d be a terrible book club member. This is posited as a hypothetical because it would never happen. I don’t read long-form books...
A Permanent Criminal Class
American society has become so over-criminalized that, according to the Institute for Policy Studies, the average working adult in this country unintentionally commits an...
We’re for Smoke
Though the title may conjure images of ’60s-era stoners a la Cheech and Chong, nothing could be further from the reality depicted in this...
