My latest for Arc Mag, a light-touch story about tech, money, market power, and the logic of capitalism in American churches. arcmag.org/tithe-empire/

It was a police-led art heist. The target: Some of the most controversial, but best-studied and most-discussed works in U.S. contemporary art. texasobserver.org/fort-worth-sal…

New from Michael Agresta: José Skinner’s The Search Committee paints, scene by scene, a rich regional landscape as the story twists and turns through this new, fast-paced satire of Texas academia at the border. texasobserver.org/the-search-com…

I reviewed this underrated gem of a first novel by a key figure in the Texas literary landscape. Check it out!

Best eight I've read new-to-me this year. If you're curious I'm happy to say more. I'm halfway through Solenoid, but it's making any list.(1/2)

Jonah Lehrer understood the assignment.