Conversations with the author of the acclaimed works Gorilla, My Love; The Salt Eaters; and Those Bones Are Not My Child

A recovery of the first book-length study of the blues and the story behind the extraordinary Dutchman who wrote it under Nazi occupation

A study of how notions of place and race inform the identities and performances of musicians in contemporary Cuba

A thorough examination of the context and impact of the irrepressibly optimistic literary darling

A challenge to the primacy of the Windrush generation as the sole founders of Caribbean literature

The story of the comic who took the stage with nothing but a newspaper and gave America an entirely new way to laugh

How black and white Mississippians strove to define themselves and restrain each other

How Caribbean thinkers have broadly influenced American culture and the quest for racial justice

Conversations with the creators, executive producers, and writers of today’s top horror shows

The perfect collection for anyone seeking to understand the cultural importance of comfort food

A star map of the galactic voyage from Yellow Peril and techno-Orientalism to dazzling stories by and about Asians

A daughter’s remembrance of life with the eccentric genius and artist Walter Anderson

An examination of how nineteenth-century African American folklore studies became a site of national debate

How superheroes grappled with industrialism, modernism, and capitalism

Curators reflect on a half century of the nation’s public presentation of living cultural heritage

How comics introduced a sharp metaphor for America’s growing recognition of a mutable past

A master class on film direction in which Schepisi provides a goldmine of insights into his films, his filmmaking style, and what makes him tick as an artist

A passionate insider’s account from a major mover and shaker in the American music scene

How one woman and her newspaper defied the white status quo and won a Pulitzer Prize

A detailed chronicle of how the wild Mississippi will eventually deliver a cataclysm

Glorious moments from all of Mississippi’s seasons in the Capital, the Delta, the Hill Country, the Piney Woods, and on the Coast

Essays that hunt down what happens when the undead go global

An essential history of the narrative art form’s global rise

A rebellious native son attempts to escape the magnetic pull of New Orleans

The only complete, on-the-scene account of the heinous Freedom Summer murders in Mississippi

The wide-ranging, authoritative story of thriving comics production and creativity in Asia

One woman’s harrowing, unforgettable account from the nadir of Jim Crow Mississippi

The unexpected story of a painter who flourished then withdrew and a small town’s discovery of a treasure

How Louisiana musicians and audiences negotiate with difference and shape a common musical heritage

A revelation of the valorous nonviolent efforts wielded to motivate change in a “moderate” part of the segregated South

A critical companion to the striking variety of contemporary southern literature

This collection traces Scorsese’s evolution from the earliest days of the New American Cinema, his work with Roger Corman, and his days at New York University’s film program to his efforts to preserve the legacy of cinema, his documentary work, and his recent string of successes.

A harrowing account of coastal erosion, long neglect, and a man-made disaster in the Bayou State

The extraordinary tale of health care professionals who fought the crippling effects of segregation and challenged the medical establishment

Interviews with the director of The Last Picture Show, What’s Up Doc?, and Daisy Miller

A biographical approach to the films of a controversial and provocative director

Interviews with the director of Citizen Ruth, Nebraska, and The Descendants

Essays exploring the many ways in which superheroes no longer belong solely to America

How minority groups negotiate thorny but critical public policy issues in America

Interviews derived from four decades of this American poet’s distinguished career

The biography of the spunky “Song a Minute Girl,” the first actress to have her spoken words censored

Interviews with the creator of the comics series Hate and the former editor of the often outrageous Weirdo magazine

A passport to the many nations, sports stars, and sports across the globe

A history of anticommunist rhetoric and its impact on the Black freedom struggle in America

How the United States government tried to define, displace, and control indigenous peoples while American Indians refused to surrender their voices

A recognition of the intense role war trauma played in the great writer’s characters and legacy

An extraordinary engagement with the colorful history of a storied inland waterway

The original sociological encounter with the riven demographics of the closed society

The first musicological and ideological examination of the rich yodeling tradition

How white resistance operated and adapted to the sweeping forces of racial change