The Wes Anderson Collection by Matt Zoller Seitz and Michael Chabon, Book People, $40
For the friend who claims “The Royal Tenenbaums” was based on their family, or that they would marry...
Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel, “The Master and Margarita,” is a classic piece of Stalin-era literature that was not published until well after Stalin’s time. It is also Thomas Garza’s,...
Jerome Bump has been an English professor at UT since 1970. Bump discussed his favorite novel, Toni Morrison’s debut “The Bluest Eye,” which deals with racism and incest in the Midwest....
Some novels don’t stand still. Rachel Kushner’s second novel, “The Flamethrowers,” moves abruptly but smoothly between several different worlds: from the New York art scene...
This weekend’s headliners are literary rock stars.
This weekend is the annual Texas Book Festival. Featuring dozens of authors in genres from fiction to cookbooks, the book festival draws...
For movie buffs, the month of October means one thing: 31 days of horror movies. With tons of horror flicks to choose from, The Daily Texan is going to be providing a daily horror recommendation. Whether...
There is nowhere we can go without bringing the past along with us.
In Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel “The Lowland,” the Pulitzer-winning author explores the complex lives of four generations...
For movie buffs, the month of October means one thing: 31 days of horror movies. With tons of horror flicks to choose from, The Daily Texan is going to be providing a daily horror recommendation. Whether...
It is easy to forget that our heroes are human. They become so pervasive in our history and culture that the lives we attribute to them are more supposition, fantasy and wishful thinking than honesty....
The worst part of the American dream is waking up.
Nominated to win this year’s Man Booker Prize, NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut novel “We Need New Names” explores the difficult,...
Junot Diaz’s writing is not an ordinary kind of beautiful.
Harsh, vulgar and devastatingly sincere, his work explores the complex, difficult lives of characters trapped in a rarefied space...
