New Orleans is a city of contradictions: comic and tragic, sacred and secular, profound and profa...

From the stately Gothic Revival and Regency-style houses of Savannah to the majestic, multicolumn...

In The French 75, John Maxwell Hamilton tracks down the many lives of this protean cocktail. The ...

The multifaceted, cubist, and comprehensive perspective of Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingw...

The New Rules of Dining Out is the quintessential resource for anyone, from the casual diner to t...

The name ''Suzanne Perron'' is synonymous with exquisite detail. Her expertly tailored gowns -- w...

Black Identities and Media in the Twenty-First Century presents original scholarly essays, drawn ...

Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel's Seeking Freedom in Indian Country is the first comprehensive study of ...

The initial confrontation between Union general Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate general Robert E...

Since its publication in Portuguese in 2015, Regina Przybycien's Black Beans and Diamonds has bec...

Black Identities and Media in the Twenty-First Century presents original scholarly essays, drawn ...

In a collection that represents over thirty-five years of her writing life, this distinguished po...

In the updated edition of his sweeping narrative on southern history, David Goldfield brings this...

Ted Tunnell's superbly researched biography of Marshall H. Twitchell is a major addition to Recon...

Kate Chopin was a nationally acclaimed short story artist of the local-color school when, in 1899...

David Huddle's latest collection, Blacksnake at the Family Reunion, shares intimate and amusing s...

Alison Hawthorne Deming brings to her first collection of verse the kinds of scrupulous observati...

In his compelling new collection, David Huddle writes, 'We think we stand in the vivid color of h...

From poems of memory and family through its extraordinary voyaging sequences 'Via Appia' and 'To ...

A prominent Louisiana political scientist makes plain the reasons for the state's political pecul...

The unusual voice encountered in Curses and Wishes carries a quiet, slightly elevatedconversation...

'Anna Journey's poetry is really magical.'-David Lynch, director of Blue Velvet and creator of Tw...

Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern HistoryIn 1858, Abraham Lincoln declared his hatred f...

In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers ...

Nothing But Freedom examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of ...

In The Long Fault, Jay Rogoff explores how the disasters of human history scar the individual psy...

Purporting to be a 'lost' seventeenth book of the 16-volume Anthologia Graeca, Book Seventeen use...

In her beguiling new collection, Bright Stranger, Katherine Soniat invites the reader to celebrat...

Winthropos, the title of George Kalogeris's new poetry collection, comes from the 'Greek-ified' n...

'American scholarship is richer for this unique exercise. More important-the great community, . ....

'An Unnatural Metropolis' offers an in-depth look at a city and society uniquely shaped by the na...

If the Sky Falls is the debut short-story collection from award-winning fiction writer Nicholas M...

One was called 'a tin can on a shingle'; the other, 'a half-submerged crocodile.' Yet, on a March...

In Ava Leavell Haymon's third collection, an unremarkable, harried, contemporary woman named Gret...

In The Tree of Forgetfulness, writer Pam Durban, winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award, continue...

The View from Saturn endeavors to look at the earth and our life on it from two perspectives at o...

'There is about [Byer's] lines something of the art of the woodcut, a starkness made the more pow...

Bobby C. Rogers's second collection, Social History, listens hard to the voices of American chara...

Kitchen Heat records in woman's language the charm and bite of domestic life. Ava Leavell Haymon'...

Second Language is the fourth volume of work from the highly acclaimed poet Lisel Mueller. The se...

In Waterlines, Louisiana native Alison Pelegrin gives us poems that describe the terrible power o...

In this debut collection, Eyes, Stones, Elana Bell brings her heritage as the granddaughter of Ho...

Through the poems in Spans, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan examines life from the perspective of one who...

For the Lost Cathedral delves deeply into the human relationship with the divine and its capacity...

'Applewhite has undertaken to capture, in the manner of Monet's serial paintings, the momentary r...

This collection of fifty-two poems from the author of Angel Fire and Anonymous Sins explores the ...

T. R. Hummer's new and characteristically pyrotechnic collection takes its title from the rare (i...

Winner of the Bollingen Prize in PoetryTogether now, the four poems River, Bloodfire, Wind Mounta...