Historian Aram Goudsouzian edits a hilarious memoir by the late sportswriter Stan Isaacs
The “chipmunks” were a loose association of young sportswriters in early 1960s who took their name from a pejorative description of one of them supplied by an older journalist. They…
Raymond Arsenault offers the first comprehensive biography of civil rights icon John Lewis
With John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community, Raymond Arsenault, professor emeritus of Southern history at the University of South Florida, has produced the first comprehensive biography of the…
Anna Olswanger’s A Visit to Moscow depicts a modern exodus
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: This review originally appeared on September 7, 2022. *** Memphis native Anna Olswanger, author of the graphic history A Visit to Moscow, began interviewing the…
Jim Minick captures the human drama of a deadly F5 tornado in Without Warning
Jim Minick’s Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, Kansas provides a gripping account of the deadliest tornado in Kansas history, which in 1955 killed 82 and injured 270 in a…
In The Forsaken and the Dead, Sidney Thompson portrays the final years of famed lawman Bass Reeves
…by Taylor Sheridan of Yellowstone fame. Thompson holds a Ph.D. in American literature/African American narratives from the University of North Texas, an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of…
In Nature’s Messenger, Patrick Dean follows an 18th-century naturalist of the American South
…uncle. He was a neighbor and friend of the British naturalist and clergyman John Ray, who likely gave him an informal scientific education and encouraged his growth as a writer…
