A treasury of hard-to-find stories, essays, tributes, and humor from a literary master

Essays on the seemingly unstoppable writer, producer, director, actor, and entrepreneur Tyler Perry

How food serves as a rhetorical catalyst for discussion in a culture that loves to eat, share, and talk

The memoir of a fearless black leader in the civil rights struggle in Mississippi

The first full-length study of the Indian American filmmaker’s extraordinary cinema

Collected interviews with the multi-talented and critically acclaimed writer behind the award-winning series, The Sandman andthe novels Neverwhere, Coraline, and American Gods

From The Walking Dead to World War Z, a serious study of the zombie in literature

A captivating photographic exploration of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast

A handbook for discovering the architectural gems in the Vieux Carré of New Orleans

A biography of one of Nashville’s most influential and unique musicians

Cutting-edge scholarship about archaeology in the southeastern United States

Essays examining the Nobel laureate’s work in the new millennium

An exploration of home cooking in the twenty-first century

How basketball loosened the grip of segregation and its proponents in the media

An enlightening volume that brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century’s master prose writers

Collected interviews with the contemporary American author of A Hall of Mirrors, Dog Soldiers, Damascas Gate, and other novels

The first in-depth study of metafiction in Tarantino’s films

A thoughtful survey of striking poems from the Civil War to the present

An exposure to the long history of separation, isolation, disparities, and eventual healing in southern health care

Collected interviews with the American filmmaker whose work spans multiple genres and features radically differing aesthetic styles

A monumental study of the history of jazz in China from its beginnings to today

An examination of the role myths of southern womanhood play in real women’s lives in the Mississippi Delta

A lush, evocative novel about a mysterious girl who survives a devastating hurricane in old Louisiana

From scholars and practitioners, a collaborative collection about the power of the orisha of drumming

A critical engagement with the origins, power, and elusiveness of white privilege

How Indian descendants maintained their culture and grew their influence in the Caribbean

A female perspective of sharecropping life

The first critical assessment of an American icon’s lasting achievement

Through the window of congregations, the landscape within churches after racial conflict

How comics are adapted from literary sources as well as brought to the screen

An account of the business lives of freedmen, whites, plantation and store owners in a thriving, Deep South commercial center

Collected interviews with the American filmmaker whose contributions as an actor, a writer, a director, a producer, and a cinematographer, at a time of radical changes in cinema history, continue to inspire independent filmmakers to challenge creative restrictions and celebrate actors’ artistic contributions

Collected interviews spanning the career of an American comic book writer, editor, and businessman who remains among the most important figures in the history of the medium

The dynamic interplay between the work of the Nobel laureate and black writers

Interviews published from 1972 to 2014 with the award-winning author of The Hunters, A Sport and a Pastime, Light Years, and All That Is

A critical biography of the novelist and champion for mental health issues

A surprising history of political success for the nativist, anti-Catholic movement

How popular media cultivates genealogy but buries its cultural context

Scholars and artists respond to the modern resurgence of the Baby Doll tradition

A vibrant exploration of the Crescent City’s distinctive in-between spaces

This collection of interviews covers every phase of the director’s career, beginning with six newly translated Dutch newspaper interviews dating back to 1968 and ending with a set of previously unpublished interviews dedicated to his most recent work.

How invisible citizens preserve their community when their town is destroyed

The extraordinary story of Arthur Freed and the mighty musical genius of MGM

Interviews published from 1965 to 2015 with one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern American letters

An analysis of mismanaged representation and response after disasters

A study of white ministers who risked their pulpits and lives to challenge southern society

The extraordinary story of sculptors and their incredible creations in Haiti

Collected interviews that address such varied topics as the nuts and bolts of creating graphic novels, world travels, teaching at Harvard University, Hollywood deal-making, climate change, Spy vs. Spy, New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, Mad magazine, and World War 3 Illustrated

From didactic nursery rhymes to Coraline and The Hunger Games, an engagement with the vital figure of the mother

Interviews with the former United States Poet Laureate