Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...line from Psalms 139:12 is “the darkness and the light are both alike to you.” Alike, I argue, in that both arrive daily, and perpetually offer us a frontier to...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...Columbia), and appear to have lived next door to the well-known white South Carolina historian Alexander Salley. Austin died in 1912 and Rosa in 1916, leaving Ruth an orphan.9Letters of...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...like Southern Spaces as a student-operated journal was going to succeed and live on. She operationalized the review and publishing process, identified peoples' strengths, and made the journal hum along....
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...Which is to say that Campanella's analysis is compelling to me because I did live in New Orleans, knew the gutterpunks and proto-hipsters who dropped out of Tulane's English program...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...2014, http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/autopsy-of-the-noise-ordinance/Content?oid=2433600; Alex Woodward, "Mimi's in the Marigny Cancels Live Music; Buffa's Faces 'noise' Lawsuit," Gambit, July 3, 2014, accessed December 19, 2014, http://www.bestofneworleans.com/blogofneworleans/archives/2014/07/03/mimis-in-the-marigny-cancels-live-music-buffas-faces-noise-lawsuit. However, musicians have not ignored this...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...those patients who had lived (or died) in Mammoth Cave fifteen years before: "The appearance of these persons, on coming into the light, is said to have been ghastly in...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...evidence of the continuing existence of places away from the big place where, increasingly, we all live." And the reviewer for The North American Review remarked that Gautreaux "knows how...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...the place where you live, and then to make choices to enhance that place. But bioregionalism was not merely a set of ideas in Port Townsend. It was manifested in...
The Liminal Site
...vertical feet down from the ridgeline and about 250 feet above downtown.1We now live in North Vancouver, British Columbia, but—since we moved during the Great Recession—we were unable to sell...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...season one, Rust and Marty uncover strange genealogies and rigged systems, sometimes reluctantly and always at great cost to their lives and security. They commit awful violence against people, such...