The Other World of Richard Wright: Perspectives on His Haiku reveals Richard Wright's poetic vision toward the human world. Through the minimal form of haiku, Wright (1908–1960) found his poetic connection ...

Norma Watkins is professor emerita at Miami Dade College, where she taught, directed the Environmental Ethics Institute, and held an endowed chair. She teaches creative writing at the College of the Redwoods ...

No recent television creator has generated more critical, scholarly, and popular discussion or acquired as devoted a cult following as Joss Whedon (b. 1964). No fewer than thirty books concerned with ...

Carol Gelderman has authored multiple books, including Henry Ford, The Wayward Capitalist; Mary McCarthy, A Life; Louis Auchincloss, A Writer's Life; and All The Presidents' Words: The Bully Pulpit and ...

David Lavery is chair in Film and Television at Brunel University in London, coeditor of the online journal Slayage, and a founding editor of Critical Studies in Television. His books include Reading ...

Cynthia Burkhead is assistant professor of English at the University of North Alabama specializing in such diverse subjects as film and television, folklore, Anglophone studies, and twentieth-century American ...

Every winter a handful of Cajun Louisiana folk artists assembles unlikely mixtures of material to shape masks for their Cajun Mardi Gras celebrations. They use window screens, chicken feathers, yarn, ...

A glossary that will lead readers through the complexities of one of William Faulkner's most fascinating books. For some The Unvanquished has proven to be the starting point for reading Faulkner. Its narrative, ...

Carolyn Ware is coordinator of the Pine Hills Culture Program at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.