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Political humor is not my genre of choice, but Mr. Texas is easily the best book I’ve read all year.

A HBO documentary series helmed by Lawrence Wright unknowingly paints a picture of a state incapable of understanding how radically it has changed since its hard-right turn.

Mr.TexasLawrence WrightKnopf$29 Everything’s bigger in Texas; pocketbooks and politics, heroes and skulduggerists. What could have been mere diatribe on the ...

MOVIE TIP American Fiction In a world of superhero flicks and sequels, it’s rare to find a film that is, by turns, funny, touching and thought-provoking. “American Fiction” is all those things and mor...

In Waco tonight: Pulitzer-winning Texas author Lawrence Wright turns to fiction—and our Legislature—in his new novel “Mr. Texas” and the shift may allow him to tell more of the truth.

A rancher turned hero finds himself elected to the Statehouse in the novel “Mr. Texas.”

While researching his new novel, the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer discovered a whole lot about corruption, political combat, and, yes, pig hunting.