64 Parishes

“Too Damn Mean to Cry”

A Harlem Renaissance look at the ruin of a man

A Lesson On Waiting

A Pox on All Their Houses

Valerie Martin’s A Recent Martyr

Black and Blue

Between the covers with Steve Cannon

Can You Hear Me, Sergeant Blue?

A hard-boiled detective in an intergalactic world

Emma Wilson Emery

Louisiana’s first poet laureate was female—and vehemently anti-war

Fatima Shaik's The Mayor of New Orleans

"The novella is a critique of race, art, and politics that stings as much, if not more so, today than it did three decades ago."

Godforsaken, Imbecilic, and Insane 

John Dufresne’s Louisiana Power & Light 

Grifter's Paradise

Nelson Algren’s "A Walk on the Wild Side" stalked the sordid side of Depression-era New Orleans

Grifter’s Paradise

Nelson Algren’s A Walk on the Wild Side stalked the sordid side of Depression-era New Orleans

Moonlight, Magnolias, and Marxism on the Bayou Teche

Barbara Giles’ The Gentle Bush rewrites Gone With the Wind

Obsessed with New Orleans

Rock journalist Nik Cohn’s Triksta chronicles a chapter in the city’s hip hop history