Collected interviews with the quirky and distinctive writer/director team of such films as Raising Arizona, Intolerable Cruelty, and Barton Fink

The first biography of the influential Antiguan journalist and follower of C. L. R. James

A study that finds African influences of melody, harmony, rhythm, and form in the top 25 songs from each decade of R&B

The first full-length critical study of the genius who created Duckburg and Uncle Scrooge

A biography that plumbs the ambiguous life of the gentlemanly novelist and historian

From multinational perspectives, a study of Wright’s innovative travel literature and its politics of postcolonialism

For readers and critics, a guide to the Nobel Laureate’s short stories

Essays that examine the aesthetics and the radical politics of one of Africa’s greatest writers

In this collection of essays that marked the tricentennial of La Salle’s expedition, thirteen scholars assess his legacy and the significance of French colonialism in the Southeast

The papers published here conclude that the key to religious meaning in Faulkner may be that his texts focus not so much on God but on a human aspiration of the divine

An important companion volume to Louis R. Harlan’s prize-winning biography of Booker T. Washington that collects Harlan’s essays on the life and career of the celebrated black leader

An intriguing sample of Walter Anderson’s visions inspired by literature’s great stories

An appreciative assessment of a wondrous recording studio and all fifty years of its magical output

Photographs that capture the battles, landscapes, history, and memories of the Civil War

Photographs and text that capture the battles, landscapes, history, and memories of the Civil War

A revealing juxtaposition of the literatures of Manifest Destiny and a dream deferred

Interviews with the well-known director of Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Bullets Over Broadway, and the Oscar-winning Annie Hall

An intimate portrait of a fiery spiritual leader and his African American congregations

Interconnected stories that reveal the fictional town of Fayton, North Carolina

A concise overview of advances and resources

An insider’s assessment of how big-time college sports is in crisis and how it can be fixed

Profiles of the artists, music makers, and movers and shakers who created New York City’s vibrant cultural landscape

A complete collection of profiles on singers that Balliett wrote for the New Yorker

All of the jazz profiles Whitney Balliett wrote for the New Yorker

The ideal guidebook for spotting and identifying forty-two sharks and twenty-five skates and rays of the Gulf of Mexico

Interviews with the actress of such Ingmar Bergman classics as Persona, Scenes from a Marriage, and Cries and Whispers and the director of such fine films as Sofie, Private Confessions, Kristin Lavransdatter, and Faithless

Interviews with the director of Scarface, Only Angels Have Wings, His Girl Friday, Sergeant York, Bringing Up Baby, The Big Sleep, Red River, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Rio Bravo

Revelations of a Gilded Age woman writing from the South’s most rugged and exotic climes

The story of a Louisiana mansion, a planter’s empire, and a preservation battle lost to bulldozers