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Book of the Living

The house museums of New Orleans

The Monument Wars

For years, whenever I was in New Orleans, I used to run past an equestrian statue just outside the voluptuously green City Park. Though it is situated at a major…

The Jive Ass Mayor Got 10 Years

by Dapper Bruce Lafitte,

In the Shadow of the Storm

by Rebecca Solnit,

Ten years ago this month, on the day Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, I was at Camp Casey, an informal encampment outside George W. Bush’s Crawford ranch, listening to…

Oil and Water: Extracting Petroleum, Exterminating Nature

by Jakob Rosenzweig, Jacqueline Bishop,

“Oil and Water: Extracting Petroleum, Exterminating Nature,” by Jakob Rosenzweig (cartography) and Jacqueline Bishop (artwork). This map was produced for Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, co-edited by Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca…