The story of Shearwater Pottery and the Anderson family’s artful enterprise

How a group of industry outsiders became popular music sensations

A comprehensive study of the writings of a pivotal Caribbean intellectual

A critical study of the writings and thought of the American literary genius and his blues and jazz derived “vernacular” aesthetic

A career-spanning examination of a masterful fiction writer’s output

The historic account of how a determined white postal worker became one of the earliest martyrs in the civil rights movement

An assessment of the achievement and aesthetic of one of America’s brightest comics innovators

Autobiographical essays, introductions, articles, reviews, and lectures that tell the personal tale of the Peanuts creator and America’s great comic strip

Interviews with the brothers who created the cinéma vérité style of documentary filmmaking and the films Salesman, Gimme Shelter, and Grey Gardens

An analysis of how black women used the mulatta figure to contest racial barriers

An inside account of the backroom negotiations that entangled the United States in the sufferings of its island neighbor

A study of Faulkner’s place among his peers

Over two decades of interviews with the first African American male author to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry

The definitive source for the movie fan magazine and how it espoused hoopla and fashioned stardom

Interviews with the creator of The Thin Blue Line; Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control; The Fog of War; and Standard Operating Procedure

A story of an African American minister who broke from the Seventh-day Adventist church during the Harlem Renaissance

Essays analyzing the impact of African American music and its European reverberations

A thoughtful examination of rough drafts and marketing pressures that reveal conflicts and compromises between five great authors and their publishers

For teachers and students, a guide to understanding one of Faulkner’s masterpieces

Shared memories from the hard-working southern women who relocated to northern cities and birthed the black middle class

Richard Wright's works most often have been judged by his own ideological polemics, seldom by the terms of art. This, however, is a study of Richard Wright's poetics, rich in a black aesthetic force that was the elemental voice in his writings

This well-informed study examines the complexly faceted and often troubled friendship of two poets united by the bonds of imagination and mutual needs.

A remarkable collection of letters covering nearly four decades of correspondence between two of the South’s foremost literary figures

An anthology that reinforces the value of harmony between two specialties of study

Valuable philosophical insights into Doctorow's novels as paragons of modernist narrative technique

Insight into the curious phenomenon of how pop culture mirrors its own face in its products

The revelation in their letters of a Mississippi plantation family’s prosperity and decline before, during, and after the Civil War

This analytical survey of contemporary fiction is a study of more than twenty-five novels written by women during a twenty-year period of rapid socio-cultural change resulting from the philosophy and goals of the contemporary women's movement

The first book to explore the career of FDR’s Utopian

“Fabulous Provinces is written easily, and the story it tells—the transformation of a rural Mississippi boy into a scholar—is in many ways the story of the twentieth-century South.”

A scholarly spotlight focused on the performers who enliven the sidewalks of New York

"A refreshing and fascinating investigation into the richness of the works of a master of drama."
-Jacques Guicharnaud, Yale University

A compelling study of how the search for black family identity ignited a rich and complex tradition in the African-American novel

Engagements with the entire body of the National Book Award winner’s work

A critical work that brings attention to a little known period in the career of America’s most notable humorist

Opening a new vista for the study of southern literature and southern history, this provocative assessment of political and literary currents in the New South sees them as flowing from the mainstream of Machiavellian tradition

A study of the multifaceted and complicated issue of state government reorganization in Mississippi

A study of contemporary America’s demand for the cultural confidence game of performance politics

Faulkner’s early fictional forays that foreshadow a Nobel Laureate in the making

A military history of McClellan's ambitious drive on Richmond and the genius and fortune by which Lee foiled it

An informative study representing a variety of scholarly perspectives revealing the cultural, historical, economic, political and geographical evolution of Old Natchez

From dicey red light district to historic tourist destination, the story of the Quarter’s transformative century

Interviews with the Native American author of the short story collections Ten Little Indians and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven; the National Book Award–winning young adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian; and the screenplay Smoke Signals

Interviews with the acclaimed director of the films Dune, Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire and the hit TV series Twin Peaks

A special edition honoring an adored Mississippi writer on the 75th anniversary of his birth

The definitive reference tool for understanding francophone Louisiana and its rich, French variety

Interviews with the acclaimed author of Lucky Jim, The Anti-Death League, and Take a Girl Like You

A revelation of the wild, wily, and well-meaning chief executives of a colorful state

Interviews with the director of Ben Hur, Jezebel, Mrs. Miniver, Roman Holiday, and Wuthering Heights