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On this episode of Book Public, Simon Van Booy discusses his latest novel, Sipsworth.

Texas Senate holds a hearing to draft new anti-squatter laws. The harmful effects of LED lights for some people and the music boxes of Villa Finale.

Banning books, whitewashing history and breaking down the barrier between church and state—that’s happening in some school districts in Texas and spreading. A new book exposes it all: They Came for The Schools: One Town’s Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America’s Classrooms. We're joined by the author Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC investigative reporter.

The Uvalde Leader News has documented the fallout after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary on May 24, 2022, including controversies involving the botched police response and the grief and frustration of the families of the victims. ABC News has produced a documentary, “Print It Black,” about the Uvalde newspaper and how it was impacted by the shooting and related controversies.

In Loose of Earth, a story of a tight-knit evangelical family in West Texas, the oldest daughter tries to make sense of the contradictions of the world she is warned about and the world she has to occupy. When her father contracts cancer from "forever chemicals" her world come crashing down. The memoir is Loose of Earth, and we hear from the author Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn.

Should the city of San Antonio fund people going out of state for a legal abortion? District 8 Councilman and candidate for mayor, Manny Pelaez, supports the Reproductive Justice Fund, but not if it pays for evading the Texas' abortion ban. Pelaez joins us to discuss why he says the city council should not be involved in this divisive issue.

In Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting (U Illinois Press, 2023), Josh Shepperd looks at the people, institutions, and influences behind the media reform movement and clearinghouse the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) in the drive to create what became the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio.

They've earned the name “forever chemicals,” because they don't break down and can persist in water and soil indefinitely. The EPA recently set new limits on the toxic chemicals used to make everything from nonstick pans to firefighting foam. How to protect yourself and your family.

Today on Texas Matters, could the West Texas Chihuahuan desert be greened? One Texan is trying to restore his 320 acres of West Texas hard scrabble into a desert forest.

"Indigenous Foodways of Texas and Northern Mexico" will highlight the food traditional, techniques, and histories that have been passed down by Mexican and Indeginous peoples from generation to generation.