Across two decades of intense creativity, David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) crafted a remarkable body of work that ranged from unclassifiable essays to a book about transfinite mathematics to vertiginous ...

In France, Belgium, and other Francophone countries, comic strips—called bande dessinee or “BD” in French—have long been considered a major art form capable of addressing a host of contemporary ...

Clarence Bernard Henry's book is a culmination of several years of field research on sacred and secular influences of àsé, the West African Yoruba concept that spread to Brazil and throughout the African ...

Best known for her long-running comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, illustrated fiction (Cruddy, The Good Times Are Killing Me), and graphic novels (One! Hundred! Demons!), the art of Lynda Barry (b. 1956) ...

Abraham Iqbal Khan is assistant professor in the Department of Communication and the Department of Africana Studies at the University of South Florida.

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) was one of the most acclaimed, popular, and controversial American playwrights of the twentieth century. The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot ...

William Jay Smith (1918-2015) served as US Poet Laureate from 1968 to 1970 and his work includes thirteen volumes of poetry and two memoirs, Army Brat and Dancing in the Garden.

Suzanne Marrs is professor of English at Millsaps College. She is author of Eudora Welty: A Biography and One Writer's Imagination: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, and she is a recipient of the Phoenix Award ...

Steven Powell is an independent scholar and cofounder and coeditor of the crime fiction studies website The Venetian Vase. He is editor 100 American Crime Writers.

Ken Prouty is associate professor of musicology and jazz studies at Michigan State University, where he teaches courses in jazz history, popular music, and American music. His first book, Knowing Jazz: ...