Celebrating the Enduring Legacy of The Last Picture Show

Larry McMurtry’s novel, The Last Picture Show, and its film adaptation have both been universally acclaimed by literary and film critics.

Reviewers praised the novel, published in 1966, for its raw, unsentimental realism and its authentic portrayal of small-town Texas. The New York Times hailed McMurtry for capturing the “suffocating and dead-end character” of his hometown of Archer City. The 1971 …