A collection of essays focusing on the rich variety of black folk art and its artists

The story of the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion, a National Historic Landmark and one of only a handful of buildings left standing when General Sherman burned Jackson, Mississippi, during the Civil War. This book traces the mansion’s history from 1842 until 1977.

The definitive biography of the artist who created the template for Nashville’s modern country music sound

An assessment of the worldwide achievement of the man who made manga mainstream

Interviews with the director of Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, A Passage to India, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and many other epic films

Conversations with the conservative founder of the National Review, host of television’s The Firing Line, and author of fifty-seven books of fiction and nonfiction

Interviews with the acclaimed Anglo-Caribbean author of Dancing in the Dark, A Distant Shore, and Foreigners

A never-before-published novel of white characters struggling to understand the true nature of manhood

A renowned African American author’s first novel with an entire cast of white characters

A biographical reassessment of the racial activist and the way his views have been portrayed

An exploration of the role of southern culture and opinion in the creation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights

An attempt to wrest folksong from contemporary theorists and return it to textual study

The story of the poisoning of President James Madison’s grandfather and the solidarity of a slave community’s traditions

An examination of how two diverse genres parallel and reflect each other

A study of the British author of V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, and many other comics and graphic novels

The richly illustrated story of one of America's great architects, a modernizer of the New Orleans skyline

Photographs that illuminate Mississippi’s rich but underexposed terrain

Talks with the British author of Flaubert’s Parrot and Arthur & George

An examination of the most gruesome tales in contemporary legend

A close examination of the period when World War II transformed American popular music

A deluxe, encyclopedic survey of the cultural scene that engendered the popular music of the twentieth century

An eminent fiction writer’s masterpieces in the book reviewer’s art

An examination of race and audience in an American innovator’s writings

An authoritative exploration of how the comics achieve meaning, form, and function

Essays that track the long interrelationship between Britain and the American South in music, religion, and trade

A biographical study of a major Mississippi politician during the New Deal era

The story of the mills, the men, and the methods that laid claim to one of Mississippi’s major renewable resources

The story of the Japanese American artist who created the look of Scooby-Doo and dozens of other unforgettable cartoon icons

A study of how a nation’s comics artists grapple with economic upheaval

A lively memoir detailing the days before, during, and after an editorial life at the New York Times Book Review

How a sufferer of Hansen’s disease emerged from isolation and devoted his life to advocacy

A comprehensive survey of New York City’s vibrant neighborhood art

A study of how excess has proved to be the intended norm in the work of major women poets

A career–spanning selection of talks by a leader who dared to call for change

Collected interviews with the director of Boys N the Hood, Poetic Justice, Four Brothers, and other films

How a local festival celebrating the odiferous lily gave a town a marketable identity

An authoritative account of the powerful bonds between generations of African American quiltmakers

Collected interviews with the director of The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Married to the Mob, and other films

A comprehensive history that reveals the intrusion of culture and politics into higher education in Mississippi

A study of the terrible racial violence that erupted in four different communities of America after World War I

A survey of the best scholarly writing on the form, craft, history, and significance of the comics

Collected interviews with the director of Bonnie and Clyde, Alice’s Restaurant, Little Big Man, Night Moves, and other films

A celebration of the acclaimed African American modern sculptor

The memoir of an accomplished politician and the first African American from Mississippi elected to the United States Congress

A revealing look at how the new generation of southern writers links southern cultural heritage and the American experience in Vietnam

A study of how women writers found ways to sound an authoritative voice in the male-dominated world