John Green, author of “The Fault in Our Stars” and “Looking for Alaska,” launched a new non-fiction book entitled “Everything is Tuberculosis,” which tells the history of the world’s most...

Suzanne Collins will go down as one of the best writers of the 21st century. She single-handedly reignited the young adult dystopian subgenre with the massively successful 2008 novel “The Hunger Games,”...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian W. Caleb McDaniel visited the University of Texas on Wednesday to discuss his book, “Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America,” which...

  Michelle Zhang always loved reading. After working at BookPeople post-college, she now works at Alienated Majesty Books, and last year, she co-founded the Austin Texas Book Trail.  This weekend,...

When Jeanette Horn started her degree at UT, she wanted to major in English. Encouraged by her family to pursue a business career, with writing on the side, she studied at the McCombs School of Business....

Alanis Morissette’s poetic lyrics and sonic angst have enraptured audiences since her 1995 album, “Jagged Little Pill.” Now, 30 years later, author Megan Volpert dives into Morissette’s legacy,...

Pablo Leon, illustrator, author and director, spoke at UT’s BIPOC PoP, a comics, gaming, animation art expo and symposium. Leon illustrated “Miles Morales: Shock Waves” and its follow-up, “Stranger...

The Poetry Tent bustled with nervous energy as colleagues, students and poetry aficionados listened to the “State of Complexity” panel read poems traversing the diverse land, history and emotions...

With three days of panel discussions and keynote presentations, the Harry Ransom Center hosted the biennial Flair Symposium. After receiving the papers of writer Fleur Cowles, an American writer and founder...

Some novels transport readers far away from their everyday lives. Others, like those in the campus novel subgenre, offer readers a chance to look more closely at the world around them. The Daily Texan...

“If you want to make something smarter, teach it to play,” oceanographer Evelyne says in Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Powers’ fictional 14th novel, after observing a formidable manta ray soar over...

Sally Rooney messes with readers’ psyches once again. Known for “Normal People” and “Conversations With Friends,” the Irish author’s latest book is a philosophical, contemplative piece on the...