Posted on · It was the second time in less than two weeks that a Jewish organization scrapped an event featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen, who was among 750 artists and writers in North America and Europe who signed an open letter that expressed criticism of Israel.
Posted on · Episode: 3267 The Human Benefits of Writing by Hand. Today, handwriting in the digital era.
Posted on · McMurtry penned almost 50 books and dozens of screenplays during a career that spanned over half a century, often depicting the American West.
Posted on · On Monday's Houston Matters: An update on COVID-19 in Greater Houston, what a potential second wave of the virus might mean, vocational training programs find ways to continue, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown.
Posted on · On Wednesday's Houston Matters: The demographics of COVID-19, our weekly political roundup, conversations with two Pulitzer Prize winners, and a documentary about the origins of the jump shot in basketball.
Posted on · The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel talks about his latest book.
Posted on · Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas tells his story in his new memoir, Dear America: Notes of An Undocumented Citizen.
Posted on · On Friday's Houston Matters: We learn about a new partnership between Microsoft and the City of Houston. Then, the Houston Chronicle's executive editor talks about the general state of the newspaper industry. Our panel of non-experts discusses The Good, Bad, & Ugly of the week's news. And a new book examines outsider art in Texas.
Posted on · Lamar joins the staffs of "The New York Times" and "The Washington Post" as this year's prize winners, among many others. See the list of winners and watch Monday's announcement ceremony here.
Posted on · A Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, Shepard cut a towering presence in theater and cinema. He died last week of complications from ALS, a family spokesman says.
Posted on · What happens when a machine begins to read its own instruction manual? No, Iâm not talking about Skynet (from the Terminator films) but rather humanityâs rapidly increasing understanding of its genome â the code that makes us who were are. Weâve mapped it and identified genes that lead to certain disorders. So could we someday […]
Posted on · (Above: Houston native David Fahrenthold reacts to the announcement that he won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting at The Washington Post. Photo Courtesy: Bonnie Jo Mount/Washington Post) Houston native David Fahrenthold recently won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for his investigations regarding then-presidential candidate Donald Trump's claims about his donations to charities and […]
Posted on · There was a lot of hand-wringing last year when the major investment services downgraded the City of Houstonâs credit rating, citing growing unfunded pension liabilities as a major reason for the move. Well, a year later, Mayor Sylvester Turner has secured an agreement with two of the cityâs three classifications of city workers â municipal […]
Posted on · She was a pioneering and award winning author and poet. She said her stories were "true in the way a work of fiction should be true, created out of all the scattered particles of life."
Posted on · We take up the notion of teaching to the test in this week’s edition of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, as our “non-expert panel” (Lisa Falkenberg, Fred Goodall, and Vlad Davidiuk) considers the good, bad, and ugly of the STAAR exams, and some Houston parents refusing to allow their kids to take the […]