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Issue 48: Spring / Summer 2022

Contributors: Breanna Henry, Charlie Coulter, Melanie Hucklebridge, Allison Field Bell, Roy Kesey, Frances Ogamba, Kaylie Saidin, Morgan Eklund, Shelby Clark, P. Hodges Adams, Brian Cyzyk, Brandi George, Supritha Rajan, Oksana Maksymchuk, Susan Meyers, Danielle Shorr

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I Kissed Shara Wheeler

Reviewed by MaKayla Tappin

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Reviewed by Ruby Zlotkowski

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Reviewed by Kenzie Donovan

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Reviewed by Ella Cheramie

The Teller of Secrets

Reviewed by Karin Suter

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How Do You Look at a Photograph?: Robert Polidori at NOMA

How To Look at a Photograph: Robert Polidori at NOMA

Art Column By Emily Farranto

How do you look at a photograph? I actually shrugged my shoulders in the first gallery of Robert Polidori's exhibition Recollections at New Orleans Museum of Art. I was surrounded by gorgeous, large-format photographs and, as often happens to me in front of photographs, I immediately grew insecure about my lack of expertise, about not “getting it.” Painting is my first language, but I can pretty confidently engage with art in most forms. What is it about the photograph that makes me feel like I’m lacking something? How do you look at a photograph?

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New Orleans Review is delighted to announce the publication of its first book, Interviews from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing and Resistance
(Bloomsbury 2019).

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