Spring 2025 • Issue 27

Louisiana as Home

Vietnamese Americans and the fiftieth anniversary of the Fall of Saigon

by Marguerite Nguyen

King of Olympus

The forgotten icon of the New Orleans AIDS crisis

by Robert W. Fieseler

This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

The ongoing battle between historic preservationists and trespassers

by Brian M. Davis

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Spring 2025 • Issue 27

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Contents

Louisiana as Home

King of Olympus

This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

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Articles

Louisiana as Home

King of Olympus

In Her Nature

The Tupper Family Store

This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Poetry by Daniel W. K. Lee

A Musical Renaissance Man

Ever Green

Tale of Two Fritters

Shrimp Boats and White Lace

Louisiana Lacunas

A Vanishing Bounty

“Easier to Sing Than to Talk"

The River Leads Home

ArtBreak39

Looking for “Petit Jean”

The Spirits of New Orleans Seep into the Literary Landscape

“Doom & Bloom”

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