The sounds of the Taiwanese Hokkien language don’t resemble Mandarin Chinese, which drifts from the throat in soft wisps. Nor ...

Following a 1925 investigation, immigrant detention in the Galveston County Jail was declared “a crime against humanity.” ...

Media attention often focuses on trans teens fleeing the anti-trans states they’re living in. But what about those who can’t ...

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A version of this story ran in the November / December 2024 issue. Ashlee Watts, a veterinary equine surgeon and Texas A&M University faculty member, referred to the draft horse she was treating ...

Assistant Professor of History at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. She is the author of The Migrant’s ...

Caroline Collier is an editor and writer based in Fort Worth whose work spans scientific research and music to public policy and sports.

New collections of fiction and nonfiction build on Dagoberto Gilb’s long career as chronicler of the working-class Southwest.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, who died at 91 last week, liked pausing by roadsides everywhere in Texas to examine plants, pocket seeds and smell the air.