A close examination of the emergence of three Los Angeles gangland autobiographies and their literary receptions

Interviews with one of the great early film directors, maestro of The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, and Hearts of the World

The story of an unforgettable African American journalist and his impact on New York City and America

The very best essays from fifty years of scholarship and thought

A richly detailed look at a Mexican American's spectacular yard exhibits commemorating holidays

A shot across the bow of Pan-African claims of a unified African culture

Interviews with the director of such films as Shock Corridor, The Naked Kiss, Verboten!, and Pickup on South Street

A critical appreciation of the life’s work of a great comic strip artist

An essential Civil Rights-era account of a witness to the Oxford riots and Mississippi’s nadir

The reprinting of a major southern writer’s New Orleans novel that explores a young woman’s temptation to live on the periphery of evil

Conversations with the author of They Came Like Swallows, The Folded Leaf, and the American Book Award-winning So Long, See You Tomorrow

How artists maintained integrity in the Red Scare’s atmosphere of conformity

An exploration of the beneficial interplay of the feminist poetry movement and the American women's movement

An examination of how six prominent African American writers of the nineteenth century reconfigured a threatening world

From Catholicism to Evangelicalism, from the seventeenth century to the present day, a study of dissonant religious forces in Mississippi’s turbulent history

An exploration of a great American writer's abiding concern with the color line

Essays that tackle the complex sexual tensions and trappings in the Nobel Laureate’s work

Interviews with the author of Baby, It’s Cold Outside; Chicken Inspector #23; and Crazy Like a Fox

A survey of New Deal construction projects and their lasting social and political impact

This book presents the story of Delta State University in both narrative and pictorial form.

The very best literary interviews from fifty years of scholarly inquiry

A comprehensive survey of the state's wild and crazy weather history

A biography of the courageous mentor to the Little Rock Nine

The full story of the state’s once thriving and diverse American Indian population

A lifelong outdoorsman and teacher’s accounts of the powerful bond between nature and humanity

How African secret societies changed the music, art, and history of Cuba

Interviews with the team that created the films Howard’s End, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, The Remains of the Day, The White Countess, and The City of Your Final Destination, among many others

Interviews with the director of Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, Planet Terror, and Sin City

Conversations with the author of A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Infinite Jest

Over 500 entries on the cherished and the forgotten from a once popular and influential entertainment form

A sophisticated account of the evolving role of comics in recent French history

How a religion and its sacred energy animated Brazilian musical creation

The definitive Mississippi account of the greatest natural disaster in American history

A record of turbulent times in which the comics became the trusted platform to attack the status quo in Italy

How the daytime drama format reaches or loses its audience in the Internet age

A remarkable architectural and historical tour of the Big Easy's cardinal suburb

A Vietnam-era novel of love, protest, and fervent beliefs

The full story of "Mississippi’s Lizzie Borden" and the sensational matricide that mystified the nation

A classic novel of one man’s will and the undercurrent of violence in the Mississippi Delta

A biography of the savvy, sexy, and inspirationally hardworking actress

A critical biography of one of the pioneers of alternative weekly comic strips

Conversations with the author of such acclaimed works as American Tabloid, L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia

A comrade and confidant reveals the early years of the young playwright’s life

A study of gospel’s influence on social awareness in a region of the South that lacked a plantation economy

The first critical exploration of the work of a great comics creator

Poets, teachers, and musicologists fusing studies of form, scansion, and musical creation to redefine the place of the American bard

An illustrated identification guide to 100+ moist-soil wetland plants that grow in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley