A Vietnamese Mardi Gras krewe.
The Black longshoremen of Mobile’s Banana Docks.
A meditation on rice and belonging.
This Food Issue isn’t just about what Southerners eat—it’s about who we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re going.
Jonathan Lethem
About
Jonathan Lethem is the author of eleven novels, including The Fortress of Solitude and The Feral Detective. His music writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, the New Yorker, and the 33 1/3 series, for which he wrote about Talking Heads’ Fear of Music. He lives in Los Angeles and Maine.