weekend links: Maxo Kream, alien abductions, Leslie Jamison

Houston rapper Maxo Kream has been on a steady upward trajectory since 2012, but his most recent project may be the thing that tips him into stardom.

featuresSean RedmondJanuary 19, 2018news

weekend links: CupcakKe, Kevin Young, Curved Light

Chicago-born rapper CupcakKe released her new album Ephorize on January 5th, and critics are already calling it her best work and one of the best outputs of the new year.

featuresSean RedmondJanuary 12, 2018news

Our 2017 Favorites - Books

2017 was a difficult year in many ways, but eras of strife and hardship breed books of power and beauty, and this year was no exception.

featuresSean RedmondDecember 31, 2017in review

Our 2017 Favorites - Visual and Sound Art

The end of 2017 is upon us, and we're none too sad to see it off. Every other week seemed to bring another terrible piece of policy, another fight to salvage American democracy.

featuresSean RedmondDecember 30, 2017in review

Feast of Lights: A History of Austin's Moonlight Towers

by Melany Jean

workSean RedmondDecember 24, 2017essays

interview: jayy dodd

jayy dodd is a poet between worlds. An editor and a writer, their work tackles the intersections of race, sexuality, and gender with grace, insight, and style. dodd’s work has appeared in Teen Vogue and Entropy, and they work as an editor for Bettering American Poetry.

issue 8, featuresSean RedmondDecember 18, 2017profiles & interviews

interview: Kaveh Akbar

Kaveh Akbar’s poems have appeared in a variety of publications including The New Yorker, Tin House, and Ploughshares, and his work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and a Lucille Medwick Memorial Award.

features, interviewSean RedmondDecember 18, 2017profiles & interviews

in review: Calling a Wolf a Wolf

“to make life first you need a dying star…” writes Kaveh Akbar in a poem from his debut full-length poetry collection.

featuresSean RedmondNovember 8, 2017in review

Texas Book Festival 2017

We're excited for the Texas Book Festival taking place this weekend here in Austin, not least of all because we'll be busy hosting events!

featuresSean RedmondNovember 2, 2017news

weekend links: MacArthur grants, Marsha P. Johnson, Latinx pop stars

Congratulations to this year’s MacArthur “Genius” Grant winners: 24 incredibly talented writers, artists, activists, scientists, musicians, mathematicians, and more.

featuresSean RedmondOctober 13, 2017news

Introducing Issue 8

We are happy to celebrate the release of our eighth issue. Featuring profiles of San Antonio's art/dance collective House of Kenzo and Chicago artist Paul Erschen,

featuresSean RedmondOctober 11, 2017news

weekend links: Nobel Prize in Lit, Guggenheim protests, alt-right double agents

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to British author Kazuo Ishiguro, who, “in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.”

featuresSean RedmondOctober 6, 2017news