Culture
- She’s not celibate — she’s ‘boysober’ | The New York Times
- I became obsessed with this seemingly innocent trend on social media. Then I realized there was a dark side. | HuffPost
Books
- The Power Broker is 50. Its latest fans are much younger. | The Washington Post
- Across the Clarissa-verse: On 100 years of Mrs. Dalloway | Literary Hub
- How much ‘fiction’ are we OK with in our nonfiction? | Narratively
- A bibliophile invites New Yorkers to engage with books that do not exist | The Art Newspaper
Art
- The fearless cowgirls of Mexican rodeo | Texas Highways
- How artists have used the ‘uncanny’ as a feminist strategy | The Art Newspaper
- A Texan helps people visualize how immense COVID-19 death toll is | NPR
- Sacred space: Look inside Ellsworth Kelly’s last work at the Blanton Museum | The Alcalde
Other reporting
- Two paragraphs forced Black residents to East Austin. Exploding real estate prices forced them out. | KUT
- With abortions banned, these Texans turned to permanent forms of birth control | KUT
- One of Austin’s first Black communities has largely been erased. This building tells its tale. | KUT
- ‘This is sacred ground’: Austinites and researchers seek to restore Mexican-American cemeteries in Montopolis | KUT
- A beloved post office in Hyde Park is closing. The Austin neighborhood wants to know why. | KUT
- Local organizations step up to expand vaccine access in East Austin | KUT
Marisa Charpentier 