Dramatic photographs uniting the visions of the photographer and of southern self-taught artists

A self-taught artist’s work that vibrantly praises God

This anthology of interviews with Borges features more than a dozen conversations that cover all phases of his life and work.

A haunting novel that explores the human compulsion to be beautiful

Memory paintings of the rural South by the daughter of a former slave

The first book to study the African American and Communist relationship in its national and international contexts

The history and lineage of a Bay Area performance troupe that blends politics and festivity

Collected interviews with the man who has been called the greatest living American film director

A revised edition of a volume praised as the best handbook for an understanding of McCarthy’s great works

Through bureaucracies and bottlenecks, a bachelor’s quest that ends in a Moscow orphanage

Collected interviews with the New Zealand director of The Piano and Portrait of a Lady

The story of a utopia created by Mississippi freedmen on a white man’s former plantation

A vivid biography of the author of The Awakening marking the 100th anniversary of its publication

Scholarly probings that find the heart of nature in the Nobel Prize author’s works

A study of how Black people were excluded from the Revolutionary patriots' goals for American liberation

Collected interivews with the Nobel Prize-winning author who many believe to be one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century

Collected interviews with the director/writer/actor who was nominated for both an Academy Award for script writing and a National Book Award

A sister’s affectionate look into the complex mind and character of her brother, the man who killed Lincoln

In Q & A’s what everybody likes about the South—the writers

The writings of a Marxist at work

The first biography of the Confederate general who lost the Mississippi River’s last strategic outpost to General Grant

Collected interviews with the director known as the most identifiable and popular filmmaker in the history of the medium

The first comprehensive study of the valley’s rich folklife

The first full-length book of in-depth interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tales of the South Pacific and many other works

In English and French, an up-close encounter with musicians from South Louisiana

In its stark, black-and-white beauty, a haunting portrait of the vast Mississippi Delta landscape

The way Edison’s talking machine brought the study of ethnic cultures into the modern era