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

The history and lineage of a Bay Area performance troupe that blends politics and festivity

The first book to study the African American and Communist relationship in its national and international contexts

Memory paintings of the rural South by the daughter of a former slave

A haunting novel that explores the human compulsion to be beautiful

This anthology of interviews with Borges features more than a dozen conversations that cover all phases of his life and work.

A self-taught artist’s work that vibrantly praises God

Dramatic photographs uniting the visions of the photographer and of southern self-taught artists

Collected interviews with the French director of Breathless and Hail Mary

A mule trader’s tales from a culture enriched by his fascinating presence

A novel in which there is candid treatment of desperate isolation in a small town’s black quarter

Collected interviews with the controversial filmmaker whose films include Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction

An eloquent defense of Jim, Twain, and the use of Huckleberry Finn in the classroom

An appreciation of the western saddle and one of the most acclaimed saddle makers of the West

A close-up look at America’s perceived historical ideal

A candid look at paramedics through their tradition of storytelling

Medicine for the lay reader, a book detailing causes and treatments of the various forms of anemia

A study that explores the history of comic book censorship

An appreciation of the rich and distinctive folklife in one of the earliest settled regions in southern Appalachia

Never described or recognized before, fantastic images of vodou spirits created by two Haitian artists

The story of a family of gospel music stars from the golden age of radio

The wistful history of a vanished hunting club told through a woman’s photographs and her grandson’s narrative

A study of the ways popular culture viewed jazz and its musicians in postwar America

An eminent historian’s essays that portray the American way of war

An anthology of readings that reveal the mind and the character of the Magnolia State

Transcribed oral tales that display the lively art of storytelling in the Bayou State