A firsthand account of the murky, faith-straightening processes by which federal judges are confirmed

The full story behind the "Stage Mother from Hell" and every scandal too shocking for Gypsy: A Musical Fable

Collected interviews with the United States Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author of Domestic Work, Beyond Katrina, and Thrall

A study of pop culture’s representation of a continent’s visual traditions

How the claim to jazz knowledge forges community and forms an understanding of canon

What happens when cultures meet and new creative expressions emerge

An examination of the fireworks and folderol that erupt when folklore and current events collide

A feature dish of the cuisine that has been too long overlooked in New Orleans cooking

A wide-ranging survey of how comics have portrayed southern ways of life

A biography of the stage and screen star who could never escape the role of dashing villain

A passionate native’s salute to the past and present glories of the Crescent City

A consideration of the many manifestations of the action heroine in film, television, contemporary popular literature, comic books, cartoons, and video games

An examination of the entire Left Behind sequence with a combined sensitivity to Evangelical belief and close textual reading

An exploration of the Nobel Lauerate’s work and its interrogations of whiteness

How the interplay of media, race, and one player’s defiance created free agency and changed baseball forever

A thoughtful examination of how a shared sense of place evolves over time

The life story of the Mississippi governor known for his fight for education and racial reconciliation

An opening into the life, novels, fictions, and manifestos of a noted Caribbean author

A history of the periodicals that brought art and sophistication to a rising bourgeoisie in the heartland

A study of four public debates about the meaning of being southern

Collected interviews with the screenwriter of the Academy Award-winning film American Beauty and creator of the Emmy Award-winning television series Six Feet Under and True Blood

A biography of the Queen of Hollywood and her decades of successes and comebacks in film, art, fashion, and journalism

A beautiful illustrated collection of fairy tales about the most iconic and active of Russian magical characters

A new intertextual reading that shows Welty confronting one of western literature’s major forces—the indomitable hero

Essays on the famed activist and preacher, among the first to call for relocation, reconciliation, and redistribution in a post-civil rights America

The photographic record of unprecedented musical discovery and the geniuses of Mississippi’s Hill Country blues

Essays that reveal the public slide into disrepute of once-cherished male sports icons

A full exploration of the history, politics, and aesthetics of the superhero genre

Interviews with the director of The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Cold Mountain

The true life story of Elvis’s original guitarist, the masterful Scotty Moore

An extraordinary look at the life, decay, and restoration of a plantation home

How the study of folklore has moved beyond oral traditions into creative realms where it is repurposed and transformed

A study of the interplay between local producers and consuming tourists in a volatile state

How beleaguered citizens created their own salvation when their institutions failed

An examination of the defining role played by one woman writer who covered the South during Reconstruction

An analysis of the course and content of the prophetic Memphis declaration

How America used jazz musicians to carry the anti-communist message when politics failed

New approaches and new considerations of authors beyond Mark Twain and into the present day

A fresh look at a multifaceted minority culture

Interviews with the director of The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire, Michael Collins, and The Butcher Boy