In blues lyrics of the thirties and forties a reflection of FDR’s influence on Black America

A critical examination of the Faulkner-Morrison literary connection

An outsider’s correspondence that documents the fight for civil rights in the Deep South

A Chinese-Eurasian’s autobiographical novel tracing a woman’s dual quest for a writing career and romance

A look at a fascinating Deep South region and its distinctive way of life

Transcribed oral tales that display the lively art of storytelling in the Bayou State

An anthology of readings that reveal the mind and the character of the Magnolia State

An eminent historian’s essays that portray the American way of war

A study of the ways popular culture viewed jazz and its musicians in postwar America

The wistful history of a vanished hunting club told through a woman’s photographs and her grandson’s narrative

The story of a family of gospel music stars from the golden age of radio

Never described or recognized before, fantastic images of vodou spirits created by two Haitian artists

An appreciation of the rich and distinctive folklife in one of the earliest settled regions in southern Appalachia

A study that explores the history of comic book censorship

Medicine for the lay reader, a book detailing causes and treatments of the various forms of anemia

A candid look at paramedics through their tradition of storytelling

A close-up look at America's perceived historical ideal

An appreciation of the western saddle and one of the most acclaimed saddle makers of the West

An eloquent defense of Jim, Twain, and the use of Huckleberry Finn in the classroom

Collected interviews with the controversial filmmaker whose films include Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction

A novel in which there is candid treatment of desperate isolation in a small town’s black quarter

A mule trader's tales from a culture enriched by his fascinating presence

Collected interviews with the French director of Breathless and Hail Mary

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