Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersIn more typical times, when Texas Monthly commissions photography for a story, we’re usually seeking to capture the presence of something: the life of a particular person, perhaps, or a specific event with economic or cultural import. But in mid-March, just as most Texans were being placed under shelter-in-place orders for the first time, we dispatched photographers all across the state to chronicle something entirely different: absence. What did Texas look like as it came to an unprecedented standstill?One of those photographers, Austin-based...…Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersIn more typical times, when Texas Monthly commissions photography for a story, we’re usually seeking to capture the presence of something: the life of a particular person, perhaps, or a specific event with economic or cultural import. But in mid-March, just as most Texans were being placed under shelter-in-place orders for the first time, we dispatched photographers all across the state to chronicle something entirely different: absence. What did Texas look like as it came to an unprecedented standstill?One of those photographers, Austin-based...WW…

Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersIn our series we invite Texans to share their coronavirus experiences with us—both the lighthearted moments and the deeply painful ones. Here, 89-year-old widow Carlene tells her story to Michael Hardy, her grandson.Read more from Notes on a Pandemic:ByByByByByByGet our weekly newsletter.ByByByandByByByByByByBy…Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersIn our series we invite Texans to share their coronavirus experiences with us—both the lighthearted moments and the deeply painful ones. Here, 89-year-old widow Carlene tells her story to Michael Hardy, her grandson.Read more from Notes on a Pandemic:ByByByByByByGet our weekly newsletter.ByByByandByByByByByByByWW…

Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersTo this day, I have never had a proper . I grew up eating a version of it that subbed layers of tortillas for spaghetti noodles, and was served alongside slender breadsticks. But when I asked longtime Texans recently if they’d ever eaten the spaghetti version, I got blank stares in return. So I set to googling.—Taylor Prewitt, social media editorWhen eighteen-year-old Air Force trainee Johnny Cash bumped into Vivian Liberto at a San Antonio roller rink one evening in 1950, both of their lives changed. The two fell for each other in the...…Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersTo this day, I have never had a proper . I grew up eating a version of it that subbed layers of tortillas for spaghetti noodles, and was served alongside slender breadsticks. But when I asked longtime Texans recently if they’d ever eaten the spaghetti version, I got blank stares in return. So I set to googling.—Taylor Prewitt, social media editorWhen eighteen-year-old Air Force trainee Johnny Cash bumped into Vivian Liberto at a San Antonio roller rink one evening in 1950, both of their lives changed. The two fell for each other in the...WW…

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Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersSince November, when COVID cases began spiking in the Panhandle, my phone has rarely been quiet. The “death calls” arrive at all hours of the day. Before the pandemic, the calls usually concerned an elderly person who had passed away in a nursing home. Now it can be anyone.The coronavirus has infected more than 2,400 people in Deaf Smith County and has killed 56. But not everyone is comfortable admitting that. A lot of residents won’t say, “My dad or mom died of COVID,” even when the death certificate confirms it. They don’t want the name of...…Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersSince November, when COVID cases began spiking in the Panhandle, my phone has rarely been quiet. The “death calls” arrive at all hours of the day. Before the pandemic, the calls usually concerned an elderly person who had passed away in a nursing home. Now it can be anyone.The coronavirus has infected more than 2,400 people in Deaf Smith County and has killed 56. But not everyone is comfortable admitting that. A lot of residents won’t say, “My dad or mom died of COVID,” even when the death certificate confirms it. They don’t want the name of...WW…

Menu —Nadia Chaudhury, freelance writer  —Sarah Hepola, freelance writer  My two favorite books of 2020 were written by good friends of mine, so discount my recommendations if you must. It helps my case, though, that both books have been critically and commercially vetted, and that each speaks in its own way to the reigning preoccupations of our dreadful year.The Zealot and the Emancipator, by H. W. Brands, also caught a wave of timeliness, even though it’s about two people—Abraham Lincoln and John Brown—who lived a century and a half before our own era of racial...…Menu —Nadia Chaudhury, freelance writer  —Sarah Hepola, freelance writer  My two favorite books of 2020 were written by good friends of mine, so discount my recommendations if you must. It helps my case, though, that both books have been critically and commercially vetted, and that each speaks in its own way to the reigning preoccupations of our dreadful year.The Zealot and the Emancipator, by H. W. Brands, also caught a wave of timeliness, even though it’s about two people—Abraham Lincoln and John Brown—who lived a century and a half before our own era of racial...WW…