From Bruce Lee to Samurai Champloo, how Asian fictions fuse with African American creative sensibilities

A thorough study of a movie genre that reached its cultural zenith in the 1970s but remains influential today

How shifts in time and storyline create narrative intrigue on television

From a cartoonist and a veteran writer on the history of comics, a joyous reclamation of cartooning geniuses

An examination of extraordinary uses and abuses of an American ideal during a time of perceived prosperity

Wide-ranging discussions with the comics artist known for the groundbreaking sci-fi satire American Flagg!

Interviews with the creator of Cerebus

A fruitful reading of the best North American and European autobiographical comics

The first biography of the much admired author of the novel Jubilee and the poem “For My People”

A comprehensive exploration of the fascinating ecology and history of one of the South’s most complex and thriving estuaries

A history of overreaching, gridlock, intrigue, and the final catastrophic results along America’s most vulnerable coastline

Never before available in English, East Asian critiques and discussion of a powerful Japanese export and popular art form

How the tangles of nineteenth-century justice ensnared an itinerant worker in Louisiana

How the image of the militant guerilla helped and hindered aims of African American and Asian American power movements

One hundred amusing, practical essays on how to enjoy and afford good wines by the author of Thomas Jefferson on Wine

Interviews with the director of Fight Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and The Social Network

An extraordinary photographic documentary from behind the scenes during the struggle for civil rights

The untold story of ten critical, formative years in the great producer’s life

Interviews with the author of The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, Once Upon a Droshky, and The Man Who Grew Younger

The first anthology to chart the Disney character’s ascent to the rank of global icon

The only volume dedicated entirely to the military history of an embattled Deep South state

A full examination of a population's passion and defeat

Collected interviews that provide insight into Martin’s numerous accomplishments as a writer, artist, and original thinker over the last forty years

A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of a country music masterpiece

How red devil buses and self-taught artists have enlivened one Latin American nation

A study of what made Mark Twain a pioneer of American comedy today

How the aftermath of the Great Depression convinced several African American writers to adopt a leftist outlook

The most thorough gathering of the great American writer’s lively correspondence

The role of women’s bodies in the productions of ideal and progressive black masculinities in African American literature

An extraordinary recollection of how an artist lived and worked in the French Quarter before its gentrification

A biography of the last mayor of New Orleans to get things done

The story of a working-class, Southern Baptist upbringing that transformed into a nightmare of bigotry and bullying in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Interviews with the author of The Last Station, Why Poetry Matters, Promised Land: Thirteen Books that Changed America, and The Passages of H. M.: A Novel of Herman Melville

The first biography to focus on the American icon’s acting craft

New photographs from the beloved creator of Delta Land

A critical study of Fairbanks’s acting career and his brand as the ultimate American

The first major biography of an actress with a long and lustrous career in film and television

Essays that explore current scholarship on the Nobel Laureate’s work

Essays that track identity and authenticity in blues and folk music that crossed the ocean

An investigation of one of the most sophisticated, intriguing, and elusive of the world’s drumming traditions