Moscow Nights
Author Nigel Cliff (The Shakespeare Riots, The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama) is on well-trod ground here. More than a...
Pigskin Rapture
Texas has four seasons: winter, spring, summer, and football. In the midst of oppressive heat, Mac Engel’s Pigskin Rapture: Four Days in The Life of...
Glass House Men
A relatively new book tells the story of a child of privilege educated at an Ivy League university who changed the United States’ landscape...
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...
Caine is Working Stiff
Earlier this year, the Weekly ran a cover story on Fort Worth-based urban fantasy novelist Rachel Caine, whose real name is Roxanne Longstreet Conrad....
Black-Eyed Susans: Murder by Flowers
You can’t write a suspense novel with a female protagonist these days without being compared to Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl or Paula Hawkins’ The...
Who Framed The Duke?
Political conspiracy theories in America have been around since the colonists fought loony old King George III for independence. Although both the conservative and...
Plain-spoken
There are a lot of hard-knock stories that follow a character from the bottom of society's barrel to a better life full of clean...
Vampires in Ghost Town
The undead, especially vampires, have become superstars in the fiction sections of bookstores in recent years. Anne Rice may have ushered in the era,...
Hullabaloo
If you’ve picked up a catalog from Texas A&M Press lately, you’ve no doubt noticed all of the battleships and generals and wars. If...