The Great River explores the beauty and power of the Mississippi
The narrative Boyce Upholt constructs engages with the wildness of the river while also explaining the the forces that have long sought to tame it.
Review of Harlem is Nowhere, National Public Radio, February 16, 2011
A review of Doug Marlette’s Magic Time, The Washington Post, September 20, 2006
A Review of Richard Wright’s posthumous novel, A Father’s Law,The Washington Post, January 13, 2008
A review of Nathan McCall’s Them, The Washington Post, November 11, 2007
Review of Stacy Scjhiff’s Cleopatra: A Life, National Public Radio, November 1, 2010
History’s Visual Echo
Mississippi Today, August 30, 2024
Review on National Public Radio, October 5, 2010
The Wall Street Journal, January 31, 2014
A Review of Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, The Washington Post, February 29, 2009
A review of Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine, The Washington Post, February 24, 2008
A review of Matthew Battles’s Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word, The Wall Street Journal, August 14, 2015
Review of Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement, The Wall Street Journal, November 6, 2015
Review of William Styron’s My Generation, The Wall Street Journal, June 19, 2015