A readable history that puts the current debates in historical context

The first biography of a blues maker who kept “country blues” and jug-band style alive

A sumptuous catalog of self-taught art from one of America’s major collections

A collection of interviews following the Greek director’s career from his innovative debut film Reconstruction in 1971 to his triumph at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998, when his film Eternity and a Day was awarded the Golden Palm

A collection of compelling stories that includes the first-prize winner in the 1999 O. Henry Awards

The first major southern novel to portray African Americans outside of stereotypes

Heartfelt profiles that chart the ups and downs of seven female soul singers of the 1960s

A Mississippi fable of divine visitation, jealousy, murder, and salvation

The complete guidebook for paddling the rivers and streams of Mississippi

What song lyrics say about Jamaican life, Rastafari religion, and reggae music history

Over thirty years of interviews with the American director of such classic films as The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, The African Queen, and The Night of the Iguana

A concise overview of this complex affliction for all those affected by addiction— addicts, family members, and even employers

Fifteen conversations ranging from 1981 to 1997 with the controversial filmmaker of Born on the Fourth of July, JFK, Natural Born Killers, and Platoon

The life and early death of a South Side guitar genius, the greatest unheralded Chicago bluesmaker

A comprehensive history of how people used the state’s forests and of how conservation triumphed

A history of the trailblazing comics that broke color barriers and portrayed African Americans in heroic storylines

For both the film buff and the general moviegoer, a handbook that unlocks the secrets of a hundred noir movies

A provocative reckoning of the challenging new direction southern literature has taken in the works of nine authors

A father and son’s eloquent portrait and personal evocations of modern Mississippi

A diasporic study of the striking similarities between Jewish consciousness and black consciousness in Europe and America

The first in-depth critical analysis of Ritt’s films and a justification of his renown as America’s premier social-issues filmmaker

A traditional yet fresh approach to grasping the power of Morrison’s writing

How creations welded from the scrapheap have become a folk art rage

A bewitching convocation of Dixie’s most frightening ghost tales

The experiences of a teacher and his white students on a nationwide trek toward racial understanding

How mid-century periodicals that fostered an indelible middle-class ideal for American women also confronted the happy homemaker stereotype

Enhanced with fifteen new essays, the benchmark of an acclaimed writer’s spunk and sense of place

A biography in interviews of one of America’s best-loved comic strip masters

An analysis of the Leo Frank case as a measure of the complexities characterizing the relationship between African Americans and Jews in North America

A biography of the notable Mexican American cartoonist and an appreciative history of his creation

A refugee child’s witness to Nazi defeat, Soviet occupation, and his family’s debacle in war

What obituaries tell us about our culture, past and present, based upon a study of more than 8,000 newspaper obituaries from 1818 to 1930

A patient’s guide to panic disorders, panic attacks, and other stress-related maladies

Twenty-one interviews with the controversial director of films such as Prospero’s Books and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

Collected interviews that reveal a man with a powerful mind, a wry sense of humor, and an unshakable commitment to justice

For patients and caregivers an overview of the nature and treatments of inflammatory bowel disease

Eudora Welty’s poignant photographs of Mississippi graveyards and memorial stones paired with Elizabeth Spencer’s exploration of the meanings the photographs yield and the light they shine onto Welty’s fiction

A biography that charts the boom and bust of America’s first celebrity author, once Mark Twain’s chief rival in American literature

A study of the Black Power narratives of Angela Davis, Assata Shakur (a.k.a. JoAnne Chesimard), and Elaine Brown as instruments for radical social change

A collection of interviews charting Spielberg’s evolution from brash young filmmaker to blockbuster king to mature and meaningful film director

A handy guide for identifying the luxuriant wildflowers along the most scenic trail of the Deep South

The juicy biography of the scandalous novelist who lifted the lid off a New England town

A penetrating look into what really gave America’s most notable magazine its distinctive punch

Collected interviews with the unpredictable and controversial filmmaker of M.A.S.H., Nashville, and Short Cuts

Collected interviews with the British filmmaker of High Hopes, Life Is Sweet, and Secrets and Lies