An intimate portrait of a fiery spiritual leader and his African American congregations

Interconnected stories that reveal the fictional town of Fayton, North Carolina

A concise overview of advances and resources

An insider’s assessment of how big-time college sports is in crisis and how it can be fixed

Profiles of the artists, music makers, and movers and shakers who created New York City’s vibrant cultural landscape

A complete collection of profiles on singers that Balliett wrote for the New Yorker

All of the jazz profiles Whitney Balliett wrote for the New Yorker

The ideal guidebook for spotting and identifying forty-two sharks and twenty-five skates and rays of the Gulf of Mexico

Interviews with the actress of such Ingmar Bergman classics as Persona, Scenes from a Marriage, and Cries and Whispers and the director of such fine films as Sofie, Private Confessions, Kristin Lavransdatter, and Faithless

Interviews with the director of Scarface, Only Angels Have Wings, His Girl Friday, Sergeant York, Bringing Up Baby, The Big Sleep, Red River, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Rio Bravo

Revelations of a Gilded Age woman writing from the South’s most rugged and exotic climes

The story of a Louisiana mansion, a planter’s empire, and a preservation battle lost to bulldozers

For those looking to comprehend and to prevent child sexual abuse, a succinct guidebook of advice and resources

An extensive study of the Sunshine State’s folk art legacy

A memoir that details the realities of black life before and during the Civil Rights Movement in the segregated South

A critical appreciation of the author extolled for both his fiction and his acclaimed three-volume history, The Civil War

A close look at William Faulkner’s strange ambivalence toward maternal figures in his novels

An examination of the connection between race and sport in America

A new consideration of the Black Panther’s leadership, political thought, and intellectual development

A critical study of the ruses and the roles with which William Faulkner masked himself and his characters

A touching memoir of Faulkner, written by his first literary agent and one of his closest friends

Early glimpses and letters that reveal William Faulkner in a family setting

A collection of interviews and profiles of the man who created Mickey Mouse, and produced such full-length animated classics as Snow White, Cinderella, Fantasia, Bambi, and Pinocchio, along with countless short cartoons

A selection of the best of Du Bois’s vision on the global battle for equality

An overview of the petroleum industry in the Deep South since World War II

A nuanced, multifaceted view of one of contemporary literature’s greatest masters

A collection of over twenty interviews with the director of Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, The Verdict, and 12 Angry Men

By kayak and canoe, an appreciative adventure along America’s last unaltered river system

Poems, sketches, profiles, and satires which clearly predict that Eudora Welty would become one of the South’s comic geniuses

Collected interviews with the controversial European filmmaker of Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown, and The Pianist

An unprecedented collection of fifty remarkable quilts from four generations of women artisans

Stories that share the Peach State’s unique holiday spirit

An innovative study of artists balancing tradition with creativity

A startling, revisionist assessment of a major southern writer’s work

The first authoritative English-language collection of interviews with the Asian director of Broken Arrow, Face/Off, and Mission Impossible II

The first fifty years of the state’s only health sciences center

A survey highlighting the many wonders of Wisconsin’s visual culture traditions

A novel of small-town Minnesota where turbulent waters run beneath placid midwestern surfaces

A biography capturing the incomparable life and times of one of America’s finest writers

Discovered in the British Library, the earliest known account in English of Muskhogean society, chronicling a remarkable diplomatic episode between European colonists and Native Americans

The latest and best from one of America’s most respected film critics

An exploration of the potential for self-expression found in groundbreaking comics and graphic novels

The unfolding story of the Magnolia State as told in this striking collection of its historical documents

A twin-cam appreciation from twenty years of riding in one of America’s largest Harley gatherings

A thematic tour of the complete works from this exceptional southern writer

An expert’s sourcebook of answers to the public’s frequently asked archaeology questions