Advancing the study of the Greater Southwest

The Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State University-San Marcos engages faculty and students in the richness and diversity of the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico and gives focus to intercultural studies through examining the region's people, institutions, history, and physical and cultural ecology. We are a partner of the Southwest Regional Humanities Center.

What's New

Texas Books in Review

The Winter 2007-2008 issue of Texas Books in Review is now available, featuring reviews of new books by Bud Shrake, Donald Barthelme (previously unpublished work), Benjamin Aliré Sáenz, Sybill Pittman Estess, and Joe Ely. This issues also presents reviews of new books on history, bird-watching, plants/weeds, literary studies of Américo Paredes, fiction, and poetry, as well as a tribute to Rolando Hinojosa-Smith by Don Graham.

Our next issue will be a Spring/Summer 2008 double issue, due out in late summer.

We continue to highlight our call for "Ten Best Texas Books" lists and responses from our readers. To read the original call for "Ten Best" lists and the responses, click here.

Southwestern American Literature

The Fall 2007 issue of Southwestern American Literature features articles on the works of the two most-recognized writers in the Southwest today: Cormac McCarthy and Larry McMurtry. The issue also contains fiction by Gregorio Ames and Michelle Brooks, and poetry by Larry D. Thomas, Deseree Probasco, and Robert L. Jones. As usual, we also offer a variety of book reviews: new works by Ann Ronald, Sarah Bird, Andrew Geyer, works on women and change, writers' colonies, Las Vegas, a new collection of stories from the Southwest, and much more.

Limited Fine Printing Available: Sensing Dobie's Shade

The Southwest Regional Humanities Center is pleased to offer Sensing Dobie's Shade: The Al Lowman Collection of J. Frank Dobie Publications in the Southwestern Writers Collection at Texas State University-San Marcos, published in a limited edition of 100 copies by David Holman at Wind River Press in Austin. Copies are available for purchase through the Center.

For information on ordering, please click here.