A restless, young generation collides with a South in transition

The perfect introduction to the many strains of American-made music

A classic and groundbreaking study of subway and hip-hop art

The astonishing, uplifting, and hilarious account of maverick Mississippi governor Kirk Fordice and his family

A first-person account of the turbulent times of the Oxford riot by a solider who guarded James Meredith when he integrated Ole Miss

An illustrated biography of the innovative geniuses who created children’s classics

Collected interviews from 1993 to 2009 with the author of The Missing, The Clearing, Welding with Children, and many other vital works of fiction

An accessible, moving, and inspirational biography of a great American writer

A biography of the great noir actor who perfected the male mask of steely impassivity

The story of a New York record man whose extraordinary career spanned jazz, blues, rhythm & blues, rock, country, ethnic, and pop music

A close examination of the emergence of three Los Angeles gangland autobiographies and their literary receptions

Interviews with one of the great early film directors, maestro of The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, and Hearts of the World

The story of an unforgettable African American journalist and his impact on New York City and America

The very best essays from fifty years of scholarship and thought

A richly detailed look at a Mexican American's spectacular yard exhibits commemorating holidays

A shot across the bow of Pan-African claims of a unified African culture

Interviews with the director of such films as Shock Corridor, The Naked Kiss, Verboten!, and Pickup on South Street

A critical appreciation of the life’s work of a great comic strip artist

An essential Civil Rights-era account of a witness to the Oxford riots and Mississippi’s nadir

The reprinting of a major southern writer’s New Orleans novel that explores a young woman’s temptation to live on the periphery of evil

Conversations with the author of They Came Like Swallows, The Folded Leaf, and the American Book Award-winning So Long, See You Tomorrow

How artists maintained integrity in the Red Scare’s atmosphere of conformity

An exploration of the beneficial interplay of the feminist poetry movement and the American women's movement

An examination of how six prominent African American writers of the nineteenth century reconfigured a threatening world

From Catholicism to Evangelicalism, from the seventeenth century to the present day, a study of dissonant religious forces in Mississippi’s turbulent history

An exploration of a great American writer's abiding concern with the color line

Essays that tackle the complex sexual tensions and trappings in the Nobel Laureate’s work

Interviews with the author of Baby, It’s Cold Outside; Chicken Inspector #23; and Crazy Like a Fox

A survey of New Deal construction projects and their lasting social and political impact

This book presents the story of Delta State University in both narrative and pictorial form.

The very best literary interviews from fifty years of scholarly inquiry

A comprehensive survey of the state's wild and crazy weather history

A biography of the courageous mentor to the Little Rock Nine

The full story of the state’s once thriving and diverse American Indian population

A lifelong outdoorsman and teacher’s accounts of the powerful bond between nature and humanity

How African secret societies changed the music, art, and history of Cuba

Interviews with the team that created the films Howard’s End, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, The Remains of the Day, The White Countess, and The City of Your Final Destination, among many others