This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Kin by Tayari Jones and Original Sin by Kathryn Paige Harden.

Every March, Women’s History Month invites us to pause and honor the women whose courage, intellect and leadership have shaped our world. This year, that invitation feels especially urgent. We are ...

There are four postscripts at the end of The End of an Era, Taylor Swift’s Disney+ docuseries about her time on the last leg of the Eras Tour. The first postscript totals up the number of shows the ...

Over the course of 2025, STAT interviewed scientists, patients, university administrators, federal health workers, and others whose lives were disrupted by the Trump administration’s spending cuts, ...

Theresa Gaffney is the lead Morning Rounds writer and reports on health care, new research, and public policy, with a particular interest in mental health, gender-affirming care, and LGBTQ+ patient ...

2. Kin by Tayari Jones is published in hardback by Oneworld. Available now ...

What’s going on in the Big 12 and beyond? I expand and explain every Sunday in Postscripts at Heartland College Sports, your home for independent Big 12 coverage. This week, TNT dives headfirst into ...

Some military censors like to write cozy postscripts to soldiers’ mail, have even been known to slip money into letters to folks at home. Last week the War Department issued a stern warning: cut it ...

Walter Ned Hollandsworth, who turns 68 in November, was raised in Wichita Falls, the son of a pastor and a school teacher. “No one has any idea why I’m called Skip,” he said recently, sipping an iced ...

Ross McCammon is the editor in chief for Texas Monthly. Did you hear? Skip’s in town from Dallas. I saw him walking down the hall. He’s probably talking to IT—a problem with his laptop. I think he’s ...

Rose Wilder Lane, one of the founding mothers of modern libertarianism, and Frank Meyer, one of the founding fathers of modern conservatism, spent a decade engaged in friendly debate. They both did ...

Few paintings symbolize the pain and absurdity of war as Pablo Picasso's Guernica, a masterpiece he finished in 1937. The painting, 3.49 meters (11 feet 5 inches) tall and 7.76 m (25 ft. 6 in.) wide, ...