Book Review Archives - San Antonio Report

MacDonald Smith swings a golf club at the Texas Open Golf Tournament at Brackenridge Golf Course in 1925.

It’s Been a Journey: New book chronicles history of the Texas Open

by Robert Rivard March 29, 2022March 28, 2022

A new book on the Texas Open’s storied 100-year history is a visual and narrative treasure trove for golf fans.

Serial killer Genene Jones was convicted of five additional murders in 2018.

Author comes full circle in story of San Antonio’s notorious baby killer

by Robert Rivard December 1, 2021December 1, 2021

San Antonio-based novelist David Liss releases a new fiction book centering on a supernatural mystery set in Victorian London.

In David Liss’ The Peculiarities, historical fiction meets the supernatural

by Robert Rivard September 8, 2021September 11, 2021

Destruction caused by the historic flood of 1921 left homes, businesses, and over 80 people dead along the Alazon Creek in the city’s Westside.

West Side Rising tells story of San Antonio’s 1921 flood, injustice, and a political awakening

by Henry Cisneros August 29, 2021August 27, 2021

South to Freedom clarifies the larger story about the birth of Texas

by Anne Elise Urrutia July 17, 2021July 16, 2021

Jeep Collins’ memoir tells story of his mother’s showy handbags, demanding nature

by Nancy Cook-Monroe May 17, 2021May 17, 2021

Cult of Glory: Taking aim at the myth of the Texas Rangers

by Robert Rivard August 8, 2020August 10, 2020

County Judge Nelson Wolff overlooks the San Antonio River and the Mission Reach from the newly constructed Bexar County Public Works building.

Judge Wolff’s New Book: The Changing Face of San Antonio

by Robert Rivard December 10, 2018January 31, 2020

Hugh Fitzsimons III

A South Texas Rancher’s Lament: A Rock Between Two Rivers

by Robert Rivard November 6, 2018May 16, 2021

Life at the Metropol Hotel With Count Rostov, A Gentleman in Moscow

by Robert Rivard April 6, 2017January 31, 2020