Southlands is a field guide exploring the human place in a more-than-human world. Proudly rooted in New Orleans, at the bottom of the Mississippi River.
Boyce Upholt is a writer and “nature critic” based in New Orleans. His journalism has appeared in, among other publications, National Geographic, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, and Oxford American. His story in The New Republic about how a troubling new farm chemical sparked conflicts in Arkansas—and what that means for the future of agriculture—won a 2019 James Beard Award. His first book, The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi, was published by W.W. Norton in June 2024.
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