NEW YORK (AP) — From her house up high in Colorado’s Elk Mountains, author Shelley Read can only look out in amazement at the ...

The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi by Boyce Upholt. W.W. Norton, 2024 ($29.99) Blast. Carve. Dredge. Smash. Such powerful verbs fill a single paragraph midstream in Boyce ...

Thanks to “Ol’ Man River,” the Broadway show tune made famous by Paul Robeson, many of us grew up thinking of the Mississippi River not merely as a piece of geography but a giant personality. That ...

Robert Macfarlane has climbed to the icy summits of windswept mountains and plunged into the darkened depths of the earth to research his books, and he says that may have given people the impression ...

The river that one white explorer named after his own ship in 1792 — the Columbia — has been called many things in many languages, but perhaps the simplest, broadest name is also the truest: Big River ...

While the cold winds blow and the Arkansas River Valley shivers, a new work born of place, memory and recipe cards takes us away to another river valley.

When we look out at the Mississippi River, beyond the levee we usually see the always-swirling, muddy water with busy freighters, tows and barges, tugboats and the like sailing the river or moored at ...

We Minnesotans are almost all lucky enough to live near a river. The Mississippi, Minnesota, Red, Pigeon, Cascade, Crow, St. Croix, St. Louis, Whitewater, Zumbro and thousands of other waterways flow ...

From her house up high in Colorado's Elk Mountains, author Shelley Read can only look out in amazement at the worldwide success of her debut novel, "Go as a River." ...