Collected interviews with the pioneer of the modern horror cinema and director of The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes, A Nightmare on Elm Street,and Scream

A groundbreaking work on race and class in the remarkable writer’s fiction and photography

The first book to explore the lasting influence of Romanticism on contemporary comics monsters

Essays exploring how Asian American adolescents form identity in YA fiction

A well-known public intellectual’s intense engagement with politics in the contemporary Caribbean

Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and screenwriter best known for his BB Trilogy, which included Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, and Broadway Bound

Conversations with the author of Bastard out of Carolina, Two or Three Things I Know For Sure, Trash, and other works

Collected interviews with the director of such films as Brokeback Mountain; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; and Life of Pi

The first and definitive biography of the great bass saxophone jazz man

The autobiography of a reluctant writer who overcame poverty and racism to become a civil rights activist and an award-winning, highly published author of books for young readers

A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist’s account of the terror and menace leveled at advocates of integration

A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist’s account of the terror and menace leveled at advocates of integration

A career-spanning collection of interviews with the comics creator of Bone, RASL, and Tüki: Save the Humans

A career-spanning collection of interviews with the comics creator of Bone, RASL, and Tüki: Save the Humans

The conclusion of a monumental study of jazz and its lasting influence

The primary installment of a life’s work seeking the confluences between American and African jazz creation

The first book-length study of the beloved British girls’ comic

The first book-length study of the beloved British girls’ comic

Collected interviews with the celebrated author of southern and Appalachian literature, who has written more than thirty volumes of poetry, short fiction, history, biography, and novels

A comprehensive introduction to five Caribbean writers and their confrontation with trauma

A study of the distinctive manner in which comics portray trauma and war

Published at long last, a great film historian’s biography of the director who invented Hollywood

The first exploration of three hundred years of intertwined Native American and African American cultural practices in New Orleans

An artful, insider’s tour of the mightiest mansion in Mississippi

A critical study of the perceptions of two similar but separate genres in young adult literature

The first dual biography of two Hollywood icons

How children have used story and play to navigate problems and delineate ethnic boundaries

A definitive study on how urban places are reflected in comics

A career-spanning collection of interviews with the multimedia phenomenon who has directed groundbreaking films like Diary of a Mad Black Woman that feature mostly African American actors and tell stories about adversity, faith, family, and redemption

How the Man of Steel leapt from panels and storyboards into folklore and myth

The first book-length study of how animal studies and digital culture change what it means to be “us”

A photographic tour of a quintessential staple of the Mississippi blues

A vivid exploration of the key role played by multiracial women in visualizing and performing Cuban identity

The quintessential book about one of the twentieth century’s most iconic albums

An inclusive survey from Frederick Douglass to the voices of Black Lives Matter

A career-spanning volume of essays from the renowned American author, poet, and screenwriter

How complex connections involved in memorializing slavery create events that wed the past to the present

An unforgettable chronicle from a groundbreaking journalist who covered Emmett Till’s murder, the Little Rock Nine, and ten US presidents

A timely examination of the beginnings of heritage tourism and the tensions felt today in one Mississippi community

A wide-ranging exploration of how contemporary narratives contribute to debates on class and economics