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

The first collection of essays to examine the breadth of Everett’s creative output

How the Internet crystallizes fringe theories into amazing realities

A study of the profound influence of surrealism on the writer’s craft

How the civil rights movement changed the careers of four white American writers as well as the literary establishment

How a northern city with de facto segregation overcame prejudice and became a beacon for the rest of America

The first comprehensive history of the state in nearly four decades

The first book to track racial uplift ideology's effect on classical music

A biography that parts the curtain on the true story behind Hollywood’s original movie mogul

The story of Huey Long's son, the powerful United States senator

A reminder of the pivotal role one woman played in our early apprehension of the Armenian genocide

Interviews with the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

A cultural history of women writers on the Left and the roots of feminist literary criticism