“Beasts of Carnaval” by Rosália Rodrigo, Mira Books, 400 pages, and “Carnaval Fever” by Yuliana Ortiz Ruano, Soft Skull Press, 256 pages. Confined to our own Carnival bubble that is Mardi Gras, it’s often easy to forget that, in scattered places throughou... See more
“Pinchback: America’s First Black Governor” by Nicholas Patler, University Press of Mississippi, 226 pages. As late as the 1970s, Louisiana history textbooks excluded P.B.S. Pinchback’s name from the list of state governors. Hardly mere oversight, the lif... See more
