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The lyrics of Kendrick Lamar’s 2012 single “Poetic Justice” express a duality between belief and skepticism—“If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room would you trust it?” When the artist takes the Super Bowl LIX halftime stage in New Orleans this coming February, he will be enveloped by the Superdome’s half-billion-dollar […]
Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana by Virginia Hanusik | Columbia Books on Architecture and the City | $28 I had lived in New Orleans for five weeks when Hurricane Ida hit. I was lucky enough to evacuate to a friend’s house in Houston, where my wife and […]