J.R. Helton, with Introduction by Michael Taylor
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BOOKS / Below the Line (excerpt)
Every now and then I run across a book that reverberates from start to finish with the unflinchingly brutal honesty that can only come...
Christopher Brown / All Photos: Christopher Brown
Jul 9, 20205 min read
FIELD NOTES / Wotan on the Beach
The first time I came to Port Aransas, I found the bayside nature preserve by following the simple rule of walking away from where...
Christopher Brown / All Photos: Christopher Brown
May 17, 202010 min read
The Coyotes of Soylent Green
The coyotes have been getting rowdy this week. Monday night we heard one of those insane banshee chorales—a sudden eruption of alien...
H.H. Howze
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Honduras Otra Vez
Honduras, 1997 “All those Olancho Rivers have gold in them,” Salem explained as we peered into the dinner plate full of river sand...
James BigBoy Medlin
Aug 9, 201914 min read
Vietnam: Getting In / Getting Out
A Three-Part Account of My Experience Part III: A Grenade, A Chicken, and The Bird Home On June 7, 1969, I woke up at 5 AM and made sure...
James BigBoy Medlin
Aug 2, 201913 min read
VIETNAM: GETTING IN/GETTING OUT
A Three-Part Account of My Experience PART II: Hello Vietnam, I Really Must Be Going At the completion of Advanced Infantry Training,...
James BigBoy Medlin
Jul 26, 201916 min read
Vietnam: Getting In / Getting Out
A Three-Part Account of My Experience PART I: Dreams, Schemes and the End of Innocence 1969 was a year of contrasts and contradictions....
Bob Simmons / Photos: Dan Hubig
Jun 14, 20194 min read
You Can't Go to Cuba Again ... Again
“The right to depart from and re-enter one’s country should be viewed as an intrinsic part of what it means to be a citizen of our...
James Medlin / Art: Dan Hubig
May 15, 20198 min read
'WHY NOT?' / The Path to the Florida Years
From the Writer Formerly Known as "BigBoy" Yes, I was born on a mountaintop (no longer there) in Santa Anna, Texas. No, I was not ridden...
Frank Browning
Apr 16, 20191 min read
Browning / Notre Dame, France’s Heart on Fire
The words speckled my screen just before sunset: Incendie à Notre Dame, Christophe typed, fresh out of a daily contractor meeting for an...
Peter Chapa
Oct 16, 201812 min read
El Casino
Peter Chapa wrote this childhood reminiscence of Hebbronville’s El Casino Theatre in 1973 El Casino was the Mexican cine or “el mono,” as...
Clay Coppedge
Aug 27, 20189 min read
Hub City Hip
The first time most of the wider world ever heard of Lubbock was after several people saw a group of bright lights zooming across the...
FRANK BROWNING
May 31, 20186 min read
Paris, May '68: You Say It Was a Revolution?
The pervasive posters, video-docs, street banners and public seminars in France are clear signs that millions want to remember 1968. But...
