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New in The Texas Observer The Waters Rising The Islands Subsiding Galveston...

The latest edition of The Texas Observer states that the 32-mile long island of Galveston, Texas, was dubbed by the New York Times as the "Lone Star equivalent of the Hamptons." But barrier islands have their own agenda. The sea is inexorably laying claim to the island, nibbling at the beaches, drowning wetlands, and inching up the seawall that protects the eastern third of the island. The Observer talks to those who would fight Mother Nature (with giant fiber socks filled with sand) and those who would bend to her will.

http://www.texasobserver.org/article.phpaid=2619

Editorial - Too much hot air

An unassailable majority of the world's scientists believe that climate change is real, yet our president and the governor of Texas insist it's not true. We don't have time for this nonsense anymore. It's time to sound out every candidate for public office and stop electing people who want to take us down with them.

http://www.texasobserver.org/article.phpaid=2621

Books & the Culture - A Mexican Steinbeck's Work Resurfaces

Recently published in English for the first time as Under the Texas Sun, Conrado Espinoza's 1926 novel El sol de Texas chronicles Mexican immigration to the United States. A Tex-Mex precursor to The Grapes of Wrath, Under the Texas Sun similarly uses the travails of migrant worker families to drive home a social message.

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