A refugee child’s witness to Nazi defeat, Soviet occupation, and his family’s debacle in war

What obituaries tell us about our culture, past and present, based upon a study of more than 8,000 newspaper obituaries from 1818 to 1930

A patient’s guide to panic disorders, panic attacks, and other stress-related maladies

Twenty-one interviews with the controversial director of films such as Prospero’s Books and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

Collected interviews that reveal a man with a powerful mind, a wry sense of humor, and an unshakable commitment to justice

For patients and caregivers an overview of the nature and treatments of inflammatory bowel disease

Eudora Welty’s poignant photographs of Mississippi graveyards and memorial stones paired with Elizabeth Spencer’s exploration of the meanings the photographs yield and the light they shine onto Welty’s fiction

A biography that charts the boom and bust of America’s first celebrity author, once Mark Twain’s chief rival in American literature

A study of the Black Power narratives of Angela Davis, Assata Shakur (a.k.a. JoAnne Chesimard), and Elaine Brown as instruments for radical social change

A collection of interviews charting Spielberg’s evolution from brash young filmmaker to blockbuster king to mature and meaningful film director

A handy guide for identifying the luxuriant wildflowers along the most scenic trail of the Deep South

The juicy biography of the scandalous novelist who lifted the lid off a New England town

A penetrating look into what really gave America’s most notable magazine its distinctive punch

Collected interviews with the unpredictable and controversial filmmaker of M.A.S.H., Nashville, and Short Cuts

Collected interviews with the British filmmaker of High Hopes, Life Is Sweet, and Secrets and Lies

Forty years of interviews with the theater and film director whose reputation has often been overshadowed by his testimony against fellow film industry professionals during the 1952 HUAC hearings

Forty years of collected interviews with the influential filmmaker of The Last Emperor, Last Tango in Paris, and Little Buddha

A close inspection of comic book lovers and their ever-expanding culture

A clear explanation for those who know the illness personally and for those who want to understand them

The first book on the diversity, distribution, conservation, and history of birds in the Magnolia State

Appealing reminiscences of small-town life by one of the South’s most enchanting oral storytellers

A study of how birthing methods have evolved and how key practices have returned

A narrative that explores the African genealogy of American Blues

An argument for how the WPA Guides contrived and shaped America’s conception of itself in the 1930s and ’40s

Culinary delights from the kitchen of a famed Crescent City chef

The way Edison’s talking machine brought the study of ethnic cultures into the modern era

In its stark, black-and-white beauty, a haunting portrait of the vast Mississippi Delta landscape

In English and French, an up-close encounter with musicians from South Louisiana

The first full-length book of in-depth interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tales of the South Pacific and many other works

The first comprehensive study of the valley’s rich folklife

Collected interviews with the director known as the most identifiable and popular filmmaker in the history of the medium

The first biography of the Confederate general who lost the Mississippi River’s last strategic outpost to General Grant

The writings of a Marxist at work

In Q & A’s what everybody likes about the South—the writers

A sister’s affectionate look into the complex mind and character of her brother, the man who killed Lincoln

Collected interviews with the director/writer/actor who was nominated for both an Academy Award for script writing and a National Book Award

Collected interivews with the Nobel Prize-winning author who many believe to be one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century

A study of how Black people were excluded from the Revolutionary patriots’ goals for American liberation

Scholarly probings that find the heart of nature in the Nobel Prize author’s works

A vivid biography of the author of The Awakening marking the 100th anniversary of its publication

The story of a utopia created by Mississippi freedmen on a white man’s former plantation

Collected interviews with the New Zealand director of The Piano and Portrait of a Lady

Through bureaucracies and bottlenecks, a bachelor’s quest that ends in a Moscow orphanage

A revised edition of a volume praised as the best handbook for an understanding of McCarthy’s great works

Collected interviews with the man who has been called the greatest living American film director