A biography in interviews of one of America’s best-loved comic strip masters

Enhanced with fifteen new essays, the benchmark of an acclaimed writer’s spunk and sense of place

How mid-century periodicals that fostered an indelible middle-class ideal for American women also confronted the happy homemaker stereotype

The experiences of a teacher and his white students on a nationwide trek toward racial understanding

A bewitching convocation of Dixie’s most frightening ghost tales

How creations welded from the scrapheap have become a folk art rage

A traditional yet fresh approach to grasping the power of Morrison’s writing

The first in-depth critical analysis of Ritt's films and a justification of his renown as America's premier social-issues filmmaker

A diasporic study of the striking similarities between Jewish consciousness and black consciousness in Europe and America

A father and son’s eloquent portrait and personal evocations of modern Mississippi

A provocative reckoning of the challenging new direction southern literature has taken in the works of nine authors

For both the film buff and the general moviegoer, a handbook that unlocks the secrets of a hundred noir movies

A history of the trailblazing comics that broke color barriers and portrayed African Americans in heroic storylines

A comprehensive history of how people used the state’s forests and of how conservation triumphed

The life and early death of a South Side guitar genius, the greatest unheralded Chicago bluesmaker

Fifteen conversations ranging from 1981 to 1997 with the controversial filmmaker of Born on the Fourth of July, JFK, Natural Born Killers, and Platoon

A concise overview of this complex affliction for all those affected by addiction— addicts, family members, and even employers

Over thirty years of interviews with the American director of such classic films as The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, The African Queen, and The Night of the Iguana

What song lyrics say about Jamaican life, Rastafari religion, and reggae music history

The complete guidebook for paddling the rivers and streams of Mississippi

A Mississippi fable of divine visitation, jealousy, murder, and salvation

Heartfelt profiles that chart the ups and downs of seven female soul singers of the 1960s

The first major southern novel to portray African Americans outside of stereotypes

A collection of compelling stories that includes the first-prize winner in the 1999 O. Henry Awards

A collection of interviews following the Greek director’s career from his innovative debut film Reconstruction in 1971 to his triumph at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998, when his film Eternity and a Day was awarded the Golden Palm

A sumptuous catalog of self-taught art from one of America’s major collections

The first biography of a blues maker who kept “country blues” and jug-band style alive

A readable history that puts the current debates in historical context

A selection of writings from the author who created America’s notion of New Orleans as an exotic and mysterious place

The biography of a white, Democratic congressman whose liberal stand on race ended his political career in Mississippi

An inside view of improv comedy in Chicago

Eleven years of interviews with the acclaimed Chinese film director of such movies as Red Sorgham, Shanghai Triad, and Not One Less

A husband’s account of how the heartbreak of pre-eclampsia struck his wife and changed their lives forever

A cultural study that reflects the modern forces on which swing music thrived

Collected interviews with the American independent film director of Permanent Vacation, Stranger Than Paradise, and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Gritty short stories set in the haze of Baton Rouge, Louisiana