New Orleans

The coolest bookstore bars in America.

 
By Brittany Allen  August 16, 2024
The History of Literature

Exploring Literary New Orleans

By History of Literature  August 7, 2023
Keen On

Jared Fishman on the Murder of Henry Glover by Police After Hurricane Katrina

By Keen On  June 5, 2023
Theater

When Cate Blanchett Played Tennessee Williams’s Greatest Character

By Nancy Schoenberger  April 7, 2023
Adaptations

Impossible Decisions at a Hurricane-Ravaged Hospital in New Orleans

By Sheri Fink  August 12, 2022
Citizenship

Finding the Hidden Story of America in the 2020 Census

By Benjamin Morris  September 30, 2021
Inspiration

The Sound of Muses: On Literary Comebacks and the Importance of Listening with Purpose

By Louis Edwards  August 23, 2021
Open Source

Accepting the Mortality of New Orleans and Other
Coastal Cities

By Open Source  August 7, 2021
Climate Crisis

The Legacy of Post-Katrina New Orleans’ Political Theater on Today’s Climate Crisis

By Samantha Montano  August 3, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Eric Nguyen on How to Capture a Place in Writing

By Eric Nguyen  May 28, 2021
On Race

How the “One Drop Rule” Became a Tool of White Supremacy

By Yaba Blay  February 22, 2021
The Quarantine Tapes

Sarah Broom: ‘We Are Making Art for Each Other and for Our Survival’

By The Quarantine Tapes  December 22, 2020
Bounce Music

The Bounce Song That Launched a Thousand Bounce Songs

By Big Freedia  December 9, 2020
New Books Network

On the Crucial Months Edgar Degas Spent in New Orleans

By New Books Network  October 26, 2020
Fiction/Non/Fiction

Fifteen Years After Katrina: Kristina Kay Robinson and Tom Piazza on How the Hurricane Shaped Our Past and Predicted Our Future

By Fiction Non Fiction  October 8, 2020
Jazz

Louis Armstrong’s Rapturous First Tour Through the American South

By Ricky Riccardi  September 3, 2020
On Race

Looking Back to the Devastation of Katrina, 15 Years Later

By Sarah M. Broom  August 27, 2020
American History

How White Supremacists Used Mardi Gras to Enforce Racial Division

By Edward Ball  August 4, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Poet Fred Shaw on Missing the Work of a New Orleans Restaurant

By Fred Shaw  April 16, 2020
Literary Biographies

Young William Faulkner in the French Quarter

By Carl Rollyson  March 24, 2020
New Books Network

Michael Zapata on Stories of Displacement

By New Books Network  February 26, 2020
Capitalism

Big Data vs. Big Dada: Writing Poetry on Demand at a New Orleans Tech Convention

By Benjamin Aleshire  November 7, 2019
News and Culture

Who Has the Right to Write About Hurricane Katrina?

By Maggie Neil  October 11, 2019
Literary Long Weekend

How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in New Orleans

By Colleen Rothman  August 30, 2019
Memoir

For Sarah Broom, Coming-of-Age Means Learning to See

By Sarah M. Broom  August 15, 2019
A Phone Call From Paul

Sarah Broom on Revising the Map of Your Own Story

By Literary Hub  August 15, 2019
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