![]() ![]() What was lost won’t be entirely recovered. ![]() Most are likely to insist that “recovery” isn’t the right word. Gary Rivlin asks many of them in “Katrina: After the Flood.” New Orleans’s evolution during the last decade has been just as instructive and astounding as the events surrounding the storm itself, but only now, on its 10th anniversary, are the first major accounts of the recovery beginning to emerge. If you really want to know how New Orleans is doing, you have to ask different questions. But each of these answers requires a book-length footnote. ![]() It’s back but different and currently undergoing a furious transformation. The local, sighing, responds tersely: New Orleans is doing terrifically and terribly. O.K.? The questioner takes the tentative, commiserating tone one might use to inquire about a friend’s infirm grandmother who, at last report, had been moved to hospice. New Orleanians have been hearing it for 10 years now: How’s New Orleans doing? Is it back? Is the Lower Ninth Ward. ![]()
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