Collected interviews with the British director of such films as Welcome to Sarajevo, Butterfly Kiss, and The Killer Inside Me

Warm recollections of the unique Yuletide experience in Mississippi

Over thirty years of interviews with the author of The Sweet Hereafter, Affliction, and the Pulitzer Prize finalist Cloudsplitter

Histories and photos of spectacular homes lost to war, disaster, and neglect

Resounding documentary proof that the original reasoning behind secession and subsequently myth-making was in defense of slavery and white supremacy

A biography of the two comrades whose friendship defined what it meant to be one of The Beats

The updated saga of the state’s monster football rivalry

Collected interviews with the alternative artist who created Lloyd Llewellyn and Eightball comics, as well as screenplays for Ghost World and Art School Confidential

The celebration of a life's work in fine art photography

A decade’s worth of fine art photography taken in the most divine spaces of an elegantly devout state

Collected interviews with the award-winning Canadian director of such films as The Dead Father and Careful

Evidence that the most notable fiction writers of the contemporary South very well may be women writers

A black moonshiner and civil rights activist’s autobiographical report on complex events in southern history neglected by white historians

An African-American artist, self-exiled behind the Iron Curtain, gives his unique perspective on his homeland and on the culture that produced him

A revealing study tracing the mechanism of literary evaluation by which the work of Wallace Stevens became a central and revered part of the treasury of modern American poetry

A study of a performing troupe in which women narrate the trauma of domestic violence

The first comprehensive treatment of the impact of the Roosevelt recovery program on the South

From parlor instrument to jazz electric, a study of musical evolution in America’s progressive era

An engaging exploration of the white heterosexual male as portrayed by professional monologists

The biography of the president of Fisk University and his role as a precursor of racial change in America

A intimate collection of sixty-five articles originally published in the TupeloJournal in 1905 and 1906, in which W. L. Clayton recorded the simpler times of the southern frontier from the 1840s to the 1860s

A groundbreaking volume in Mississippi studies in that it is an attempt to open the Piney Woods part of the state to historical and cultural scrutiny

Intriguing investigation of fairy-tale images in Atwood’s haunting fiction, poetry, and artwork

An examination of those who resist, wield and respond to stereotypes in literature, film, sports, and music

A study of how the works of these writers offer the empowerment of female authorship and acknowledge the woman’s community whose collective experience shapes their narratives

Feminism and liberalism in autobiographical writings of six women of the American South

Valuable scholarship from a leading textual critic on southern literature

A critical exploration of the effects and influence of America’s wars upon the works of the Nobel Prize laureate

A study of works by four professional women of the nineteenth century who prescribed domestic lives for others of their sex

The first comprehensive study of the prominent African American author John Edgar Wideman and his novels

The first collection of essays on literature and life from the famous African American activist and scholar

The astonishing story of a planter’s will, a slave revolt, and his freed slaves’ querulous and deadly legacy in war-torn Liberia

A critical assessment of a great Mississippi writer’s empathy with the working class

The tribute to a musician whose career spans hillbilly, bluegrass, and sacred music

Collected interviews with the director who is sometimes called the "lost genius of the New Hollywood generation" for creating such films as Harold and Maude, Being There, Shampoo, and Coming Home

An analysis of the media’s reaction to the lynching of a young black man

In this inclusive examination of Cabell’s life and milieu, a fascinating literary figure is rescued from the literary shadows and acknowledged as a writer of major worth in the canon of American literature.

A compilation and analysis of the many blues and gospel songs written about the inspirational president

In a new printing, a pseudo-slave narrative published in 1856 to impel the cause of abolition

This book traces the Students for a Democratic Society in their relation to other movements and demonstrates that the New Left’s dissolution flowed directly from SDS’s failure to break with traditional American notions of race, sex, and empire.

A history of weaponry used to defend, attack, suppress, and stalk over the centuries

The first collection of interviews with the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of Kindred, Parable of the Sower, Fledgling, and Bloodchild

Collected interviews with the Canadian director of such acclaimed films as The Sweet Hereafter, Felicia’s Journey, and Exotica

A richly illustrated history of over one hundred sacred structures lost to disaster, demolition, or abandonment

An extended meditation on a lively slip of river wilderness abutting the Mississippi River

A biography of the religious and deeply closeted rival to Rudolph Valentino