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“A Game with Death”
The murder mystery novel that gripped Depression-era New Orleans
Articles
Summer 2024
Confessionals, Baseball, and Forever-Spreading Suburbs
Andre Dubus's Lafayette stories
Spring 2024
Motherhood and Its Malcontents
Patty Friedmann’s The Exact Image of Mother
Winter 2023
Peculiar and Incendiary
Julian Moreau’s The Black Commandos.
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Always on the Threshold
“God, don’t let me die before I do something useful.”
Summer 2023
Diet Gospel
H. Leighton Steward’s Sugar Busters!
Spring 2023
Bad Romance, Bad Research
Cornell Woolrich’s Waltz into Darkness
Winter 2022
Peace, Justice, and the Cajun Way
Tim Edler’s Crawfish-Man
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Brief, Brutish, and Bacchic
Nancy Lemann’s Lives of the Saints
Spring 2022
Wearing Masks 364 Days a Year
John Rechy's City of Night
Winter 2021
“Call Me Shakbatina”
LeAnne Howe’s Shell Shaker
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Quarrels with America
Robert Stone's A Hall of Mirrors
Summer 2021
Misery Tea
Tony Kushner’s Caroline, or Change
Spring 2021
A Pox on All Their Houses
Valerie Martin's A Recent Martyr
Winter 2020
Godforsaken, Imbecilic, and Insane
John Dufresne’s Louisiana Power & Light
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Obsessed with New Orleans
Rock journalist Nik Cohn’s Triksta chronicles a chapter in the city’s hip hop history
Summer 2020
Emma Wilson Emery
Louisiana’s first poet laureate was female—and vehemently anti-war
Spring 2020
The Poor Man’s Truman Capote
Speed Lamkin stayed stuck in the other author’s shadow
Winter 2019
Sea Changes
Shirley Ann Grau’s debut novel evokes the coast
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“Too Damn Mean to Cry”
A Harlem Renaissance look at the ruin of a man
Summer 2019
Black and Blue
Between the covers with Steve Cannon
Spring 2019
Moonlight, Magnolias, and Marxism on the Bayou Teche
Barbara Giles’ The Gentle Bush rewrites Gone With the Wind
Winter 2018
Can You Hear Me, Sergeant Blue?
A hard-boiled detective in an intergalactic world
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Grifter’s Paradise
Nelson Algren’s A Walk on the Wild Side stalked the sordid side of Depression-era New Orleans
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Grifter's Paradise
Nelson Algren’s "A Walk on the Wild Side" stalked the sordid side of Depression-era New Orleans
Summer 2018
Plaquemines Picaresque
On the road with The Great Big Doorstep, the second and final novel by New Orleans writer E. P. O'Donnell
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A Lesson On Waiting
Winter 2017
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."
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