Conversations with Orhan Pamuk
Thirty interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist best known for My Name Is Red, Snow, and The Museum of Innocence
Comics and Modernism
History, Form, and Culture
The first collection to engage with the fascinating overlap between comics and modernism
A Trumpet around the Corner
The Story of New Orleans Jazz
From the first raucous chorus to the aftermath of Katrina, the saga of the Big Easy’s signature music
Poor Gal
The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane
The telling journey of a centuries-old tune and what it says about race, class, and American folk music
Learning Jazz
Jazz Education, History, and Public Pedagogy
A call for collaboration and understanding in how we learn jazz in diverse settings
Intersecting Aesthetics
Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness
How twentieth-century Black writers and filmmakers struggled to create authentic adaptations that reflected Black experiences
From Biblical Book to Musical Megahit
William B. Bradbury's Esther, the Beautiful Queen
The compelling history of an acclaimed and enduring musical piece
Conversations with Karl Ove Knausgaard
Twenty-two interviews with the Norwegian author and winner of the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature who is best known for his two autobiographical series My Struggle and the Seasons quartet
Civic Buildings after the Spanish-American War
How Beaux-Arts edifices reveal the United States’ imperialistic vision in the Caribbean