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- "I hear America singing" : folk music and national identity
- 'Tain't the meat-- it's the humanity! : and other stories
- 1965 : the most revolutionary year in music
- 1973 : rock at the crossroads
- 2019 Pushcart prize XLIII : best of the small presses
- 25 books every Christian should read : a guide to the essential spiritual classics
- 3 kings : Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay Z, and hip-hop's multibillion-dollar rise
- 50 girls 50 : and other stories
- A New New Testament : a Bible for the twenty-first century combining traditional and newly discovered texts
- A century of Welsh music,
- A chastened communion : modern Irish poetry and Catholicism
- A great day in Harlem
- A great day in Harlem
- A history of American graphic humor,
- A history of Canadian literature
- A history of English romanticism in the eighteenth century,
- A history of Icelandic literature
- A history of modern poetry
- A history of musical thought
- A history of the Bible : the story of the world's most influential book
- A life observed : a spiritual biography of C.S. Lewis
- A light in the dark : a history of movie directors
- A literary history of England
- A little devil in America : notes in praise of Black performance
- A many-windowed house : collected essays on American writers and American writing
- A most peculiar book : the inherent strangeness of the Bible
- A natural history of the piano : the instrument, the music, the musicians--from Mozart to modern jazz, and everything in between
- A pamphlet against anthologies,
- A personal journey with Martin Scorsese through American movies
- A poet's sourcebook : writing about poetry, from the ancient world to the present
- A portrait of Bowie : a tribute to Bowie by his artistic collaborators & contemporaries
- A reader's book of days : true tales from the lives and works of writers for every day of the year
- A reader's guide to Walt Whitman
- A second flowering : works and days of the lost generation
- A shimmer of joy : one hundred children's picture books in America
- A sneetch is a sneetch and other philosophical discoveries : finding wisdom in children's literature
- A song for you : the Austin City Limits story
- A sound mind : how I fell in love with classical music (and decided to rewrite its entire history)
- A survey of modernist poetry,
- A swim in a pond in the rain : in which four Russians give a master class on writing, reading, and life
- A thousand darknesses : lies and truth in Holocaust fiction
- A treasury of best-loved hymns, : with their stories
- A way of living : the art of Willem De Kooning
- Aboriginal music in contemporary Canada : echoes and exchanges
- Absolute Wilson
- Absolutely on music : conversations
- Adam Pendleton
- Adam to Daniel : an illustrated guide to the Old Testament and its background
- African American poetry : 250 years of struggle & song
- Against interpretation, and other essays
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Ai Weiwei : Circle of animals
- Alex Katz
- All joking aside : American humor and its discontents
- All of the marvels : a journey to the ends of the biggest story ever told
- All shook up : how rock 'n' roll changed America
- Allah : God in the Qur'an
- Altamont : the Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the inside story of rock's darkest day
- Amazing fantastic incredible : a marvelous memoir
- America the beautiful : the stirring true story behind our nation's favorite song
- American Isis : the life and art of Sylvia Plath
- American Oz
- American biography: : its theory and practice
- American epic
- American epic : when music gave America her voice
- American literature : a journal of literary history, criticism and bibliography
- An Eakins masterpiece restored : seeing The Gross Clinic anew
- An Introduction to A wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin : audio guide
- An Introduction to Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
- An Introduction to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- An Introduction to The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck : audio guide
- An Introduction to The thief and the dogs by Naguib Mahfouz
- An Introduction to To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee : audio guide
- An autobiography of Black jazz
- An introduction to A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway : audio guide
- An introduction to A lesson before dying by Ernest J. Gaines : audio guide
- An introduction to Bless me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya : audio guide
- An introduction to Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury : audio guide
- An introduction to My Ántonia by Willa Cather : audio guide
- An introduction to Old School by Tobias Wolff
- An introduction to Persian literature
- An introduction to The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan : audio guide
- An introduction to The Maltese falcon by Dashiell Hammett : audio guide
- An introduction to The age of innocence by Edith Wharton
- An introduction to The call of the wild by Jack London
- An introduction to The death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
- An introduction to The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald : audio guide
- An introduction to The heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCullers : audio guide
- An introduction to The shawl by Cynthia Ozick
- An introduction to Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- An introduction to the Russian novel
- Anatomy of a song : the oral history of 45 iconic hits that changed rock, R & B and pop
- Ancestral imprints : histories of Irish traditional music and dance
- Anish Kapoor : arqueología: biología = archaeology: biology
- Anne around the world : L.M. Montgomery and her classic
- Anni Albers
- Another state of mind
- Anselm Kiefer
- Anything boys can do--
- Anything goes : a history of American musical theatre
- Aphrodite and the rabbis : how the Jews adapted Roman culture to create Judaism as we know it
- Apocalypse of clay : 'the men's the boys' : a study of Patrick Kavanagh's masterpiece 'The great hunger' and Ireland's coming of age
- Apostrophe (') ; : Over-nite sensation
- Appetite for definition : an A-Z guide to rock genres
- Archaeology and the Iliad : the Trojan War in Homer and history
- Architecture's odd couple : Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson
- Ardor
- Are you not a man of God? : devotion, betrayal, and social criticism in Jewish tradition
- Aretha Franklin : Respect
- Arnold, the poet
- Art and race matters : the career of Robert Colescott
- Art rebels : race, class, and gender in the art of Miles Davis and Martin Scorsese
- Artemisia Gentileschi : the language of painting
- Artful
- Asimov's guide to Shakespeare.
- Asimov's guide to the Bible
- Assembling Flann O'Brien
- Astral weeks : a secret history of 1968
- At the Lightning Field
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Author in chief : the untold story of our presidents and the books they wrote
- Awake in America : on Irish American poetry
- Banksy : completed
- Banksy in New York
- Barking with the big dogs : on writing and reading books for children
- Bearing God's name : why Sinai still matters
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Beatles vs. Stones
- Bedeviled : Lewis, Tolkien and the shadow of evil
- Beeswing : losing my way and finding my voice, 1967-1975
- Beethoven : the relentless revolutionary
- Beethoven's Eroica : the first great romantic symphony
- Before Elvis : the prehistory of rock 'n' roll
- Beginnings : reflections on the Bible's intriguing firsts
- Behold the land : the Black Arts movement in the South
- Being human in God's world : an Old Testament theology of humanity
- Beltaine : the organ of the Irish Literary Theatre
- Beowulf : a translation and commentary : together with Sellic spell
- Bewilderments : reflections on the Book of Numbers
- Beyoncé in formation : remixing Black feminism
- Beyond the Northlands : Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas
- Bhagavad-gītā : the ambrosial 'Sat-Song' of Sri Krishna
- Biblical literalism : a gentile heresy : a journey into a new Christianity through the doorway of Matthew's gospel
- Bill Moyers, The language of life
- Bill Viola
- Billy Joel : America's piano man
- Bird & Diz
- Birth of a movement : the battle against America's first blockbuster
- Bitten by the blues : the Alligator Records story
- Bizet's Carmen uncovered
- Black Panther : the ultimate guide
- Black Samson : the untold story of an American icon
- Black resonance : iconic women singers and African American literature
- Blackening Canada : diaspora, race, multiculturalism
- Blood on black wax : horror soundtracks on vinyl
- Blood, boobs & beast : plus Nightbeast
- Blue notes in black and white : photography and jazz
- Blues legacy : tradition and innovation in Chicago
- Bob Dylan : American troubadour
- Bob Dylan : all the songs : the story behind every track
- Bone : coda
- Books of the people
- Books that changed our minds.
- Bound for glory
- Braque
- Brave punk world : the international rock underground from Alerta Roja to Z-off
- Breakfast served any time all day : essays on poetry new and selected
- Breakfast with Lucian : the astounding life and outrageous times of Britain's great modern painter
- Breaking ground : Henry B. Hoover, New England modern architect
- Brian De Palma's Split-screen : a life in film
- Brian Friel : theatre and politics
- Brice Marden
- Bright star of the west : Joe Heaney, Irish song-man
- British Romantic poets : recent revaluations
- British Victorian literature : recent revaluations
- British ballads from Maine : the development of popular songs with texts and airs versions of ballads included in Francis J. Child's collection, Second series
- Broadcast hysteria : Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the art of fake news
- Broadway to Main Street : how show tunes enchanted America
- Brocade by night : "Kokin wakashū" and the court style in Japanese classical poetry
- Bruce Nauman : the true artist
- Bruce Springsteen : American poet and prophet
- Bruce Springsteen : the stories behind the songs
- Bruce Springsteen and the promise of rock 'n' roll
- Buffoon men : classic Hollywood comedians and queered masculinity
- Burning down the house : essays on fiction
- Burning questions : essays and occasional pieces 2004 to 2021
- Calle 54
- Camera man : Buster Keaton, the dawn of cinema, and the invention of the Twentieth Century
- Can you bring it : Bill T. Jones and D-man in the waters
- Can't stop won't stop : a hip-hop history
- Canadian cinema since the 1980s : at the heart of the world
- Caravaggio : the complete works
- Carmen
- Caroline M. Hewins : her book
- Carrie Mae Weems
- Caspar David Friedrich
- Caspar David Friedrich : nature and the self
- Cassatt : mothers and children
- Chamber music : Wu-Tang and America (in 36 pieces)
- Chamber music : a listener's guide
- Chamber music : an essential history
- Changed for good : a feminist history of the Broadway musical
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928)
- Chicago renaissance : literature and art in the Midwest metropolis
- Chinatown opera theater in North America
- Chinese literature, : a historical introduction
- Christmas with Maud Lewis
- Chuck D presents This day in rap and hip-hop history
- Church music in history and practice : studies in the praise of God
- Ciao, Carpaccio! : an infatuation
- Cinderella's big score : women of the punk and indie underground
- Citizen Cash : the political life and times of Johnny Cash
- Collected essays & memoirs
- Comic book confidential
- Comic book confidential
- Comic books and American cultural history : an anthology
- Comics art
- Comics versus art
- Comparing notes : how we make sense of music
- Constellations : the life and music of John Buckley
- Contemporary composers on contemporary music
- Contemporary composers on contemporary music.
- Conversations
- Conversations in jazz : the Ralph J. Gleason interviews
- Cosmic cowboys and new hicks : the countercultural sounds of Austin's progressive country music scene
- Country music
- Country music
- Country soul : making music and making race in the American South
- Crazy happy : nine surprising ways to live the truly beautiful life
- Credo : historical and theological guide to creeds and confessions of faith in the Christian tradition
- Critical mass : four decades of essays, reviews, hand grenades, and hurrahs
- Critiques and essays in criticism ; 1920-1948 : representing the achievement of modern British and American critics
- Crossing the bridge : the sound of Istanbul
- Crossroads : how the blues shaped rock 'n' roll (and rock saved the blues)
- Cumbia! : scenes of a migrant Latin American music genre
- Cézanne's watercolors : between drawing and painting
- DJ Screw : a life in slow revolution
- Da Vinci's ghost : genius, obsession, and how Leonardo created the world in his own image
- Dali
- Dance all night : those other southwestern swing bands, past and present
- Dangerous rhythm : why movie musicals matter
- Dangerous sisters of the Hebrew Bible
- Dante and his Divine comedy
- Danzón : circum-Caribbean dialogues in music and dance
- Dashiell Hammett and the movies
- David Bowie made me gay : 100 years of LGBT music
- David Driskell : icons of nature and history
- David Lynch : the man from another place
- David Smith
- Debussy's Paris : piano portraits of the Belle Époque
- Declarations of independence : women and political power in nineteenth-century American fiction
- Defacing the monument
- Denise Levertov : a poet's life
- Die Weisse Göttin ; : Sprache des Mythos
- Diego Rivera : 1886-1957 : a revolutionary spirit in modern art
- Dig : sound and music in hip culture
- Dilla time : the life and afterlife of J Dilla, the hip-hop producer who reinvented rhythm
- Discovering Second Temple literature : the scriptures and stories that shaped early Judaism
- Dislocated memories : Jews, music, and postwar German culture
- Does the Bible tell me so?
- Dog soldiers ; : A flag for sunrise ; Outerbridge reach
- Dolls! Dolls! Dolls! : deep inside Valley of the dolls, the most beloved bad book and movie of all time
- Don't need you : the herstory of riot grrrl
- Doris Lessing
- Dreams of love : playing the romantic pianist
- Dreams to remember : Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the transformation of Southern soul
- Duchamp
- Dvořák's prophecy : and the vexed fate of Black classical music
- Early medieval music, up to 1300
- Early reception of Edwin Arlington Robinson : the first twenty years
- Echo in the canyon
- Echoes of the Holocaust on the American musical stage
- Eco-Joyce : the environmental Imagination of James Joyce
- Edward Gorey : his book cover art & design
- Edward Hopper and the American hotel
- Edward Hopper in Vermont
- Edwin Arlington Robinson; : a critical introduction
- El Anatsui : art and life
- Electric shock : from the gramophone to the iPhone : 125 years of pop music
- Electronic music : a listener's guide
- Elegy landscapes : Constable and Turner and the intimate sublime
- Elizabethan plays and players
- Elva S. Smith's The history of children's literature : a syllabus with selected bibliographies
- Elvis by the Presleys
- Elvis in Vegas : how the King reinvented the Las Vegas show
- Emil Nolde : artist of the elements
- Eminem : the real Slim Shady
- Emotional rescue : essays on love, loss, and life--with a soundtrack
- End of the century : the story of the Ramones
- Ending in earnest : a literary log
- English literature in fact & story, : being a brief account of its writers & their backgrounds, matters very necesssary to be known by the gentle reader of polite letters. To which are added for his greater edification many amusing & famous anecdotes and much other illustrative material with maps, charts, & pictures.
- English literature in the earlier seventeenth century, 1600-1660
- English literature, 1789-1815
- English poetry : a short history
- Ennio Morricone : in his own words
- Entertainment weekly
- Envisioning Howard Finster : the religion and art of a stranger from another world
- Escaping the delta : Robert Johnson and the invention of the blues
- Essays of the 1960s & 70s
- Everybody knows... Elizabeth Murray
- Everybody loves our town : an oral history of Grunge
- Everybody's doin' it : sex, music, and dance in New York, 1840-1917
- Everyday sunshine : the story of Fishbone
- Everything is copy : Nora Ephron scripted & unscripted
- Evolution of the Word : the New Testament in the order the books were written
- Exile : a conversation with N.T. Wright
- Experiencing Berlioz : a listener's companion
- Experiencing Jewish music in America : a listener's companion
- Experiencing Leonard Bernstein : a listener's companion
- Experiencing big band jazz : a listener's companion
- Experiencing progressive rock : a listener's companion
- Exploring American folk music : ethnic, grassroots, and regional traditions in the United States
- Extraordinary ideas - realized
- Fahrenheit 451
- Faith Ringgold : Die
- Famous songs and their stories
- Fangirls : scenes from modern music culture
- Fantastic voyages of the cinematic imagination : Georges Méliès's Trip to the moon
- Father Abraham's many children : the Bible in a world of religious difference
- Fear and trembling : a new translation
- Fear itself : the horror fiction of Stephen King
- Feel free : essays
- Feel like going home
- Field recordings from the inside : essays
- Fife, drum & bugle,
- Film flam : essays on Hollywood
- Findings
- Finishing the hat : collected lyrics (1954-1981) with attendant comments, principles, heresies, grudges, whines and anecdotes
- Fire and rain : [the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY and the lost story of 1970]
- Fire and rain : the Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the lost story of 1970
- Five centuries of keyboard music; : an historical survey of music for harpsichord and piano
- Five years ahead of my time : garage rock from the 1950s to the present
- Flash forward : an illustrated guide to possible (and not so possible) tomorrows
- Florida soul : from Ray Charles to KC and the Sunshine Band
- Folksongs of another America : field recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946
- Follies of God : Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog
- Footnotes : the Black artists who rewrote the rules of the Great White Way
- For kids of all ages : the National Society of Film Critics on children's movies
- For the Bible tells me so
- Forged : writing in the name of God : why the Bible's authors are not who we think they are
- Forgery and counterforgery : the use of literary deceit in early Christian polemics
- Four strange books of the Bible: Jonah, Daniel, Koheleth, Esther
- Frame of mind : punk photos and essays from Washington, DC, and beyond : 1997-2017
- Francis Bacon
- Frank Gehry
- Frank Gehry : the masterpieces
- Freedom and the arts : essays on music and literature
- Freestyle : the art of rhyme
- From Hollywood with love : the rise and fall (and rise again) of the romantic comedy
- From Leenane to L.A. : the theatre and cinema of Martin McDonagh
- From the streets of Shaolin : the Wu-Tang saga
- Future sounds : the story of electronic music from Stockhausen to Skrillex
- G.B.S. 90; : aspects of Bernard Shaw's life and work
- Gale literary sources
- Gale literature resource center
- Gauguin : a retrospective
- George Bellows
- George Bernard Shaw : creative artist
- George Bernard Shaw, creative artist
- George Moore : Dublin, Paris, Hollywood
- Georges Braque and the Cubist still life, 1928-1945
- Georges Seurat : the art of vision
- Get lit rising : Words ignite. Claim your poem. Claim your life.
- Ghost writers : the hallowed haunts of unforgettable literary icons
- Giant steps : bebop and the creators of modern jazz 1945-65
- Gio Ponti : archi-designer
- Glam rock : music in sound and vision
- Glitter up the dark : how pop music broke the binary
- God in the Qur'an
- God is here : reimagining the Divine
- God laughed : sources of Jewish humor
- God mocks : a history of religious satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert
- God save the queens : the essential history of women in hip-hop
- God, where are you? practical answers to spiritual questions
- Godfathers and sons : a film by Marc Levin ; Cappa Productions and Jigsaw Productions
- Going there : Black visual satire
- Gone with the glory : the Civil War in cinema
- Good booty : love and sex, black & white, body and soul in American music
- Goodnight, L.A. : the rise and fall of classic rock-the untold story from inside the legendary recording studios
- Gore Vidal : the United States of amnesia
- Gothicka : vampire heroes, human gods, and the new supernatural
- Goya : order & disorder
- Graphic passion : Matisse and the book arts
- Grayson Perry
- Great American music : Broadway musicals
- Greeted with smiles : Bukharian Jewish music and musicians in New York
- Guide to great plays
- Guts : the anatomy of The Walking Dead
- Half Japanese : the band that would be king
- Hamilton : the revolution
- Hamilton : the revolution : being the complete libretto of the Broadway musical, with a true account of its creation, and concise remarks on hip-hop, the power of stories, and the new America
- Handsome heroes & vile villains : men in Disney's feature animation
- Hans Haacke : all connected
- Harlan : in the shadow of Jew Süss
- Harry Potter : a journey through A history of magic
- Hava nagila : the movie
- Hawthorne's habitations : a literary life
- Hear my sad story : the true tales that inspired "Stagolee," "John Henry," and other traditional American folk songs
- Hearn and his biographers; : the record of a literary controversy,
- Hearts of darkness : James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Cat Stevens, and the unlikely rise of the singer-songwriter
- Hegel
- Help! : the Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the magic of collaboration
- Henri Cartier-Bresson : here and now
- Henry James : a very short introduction
- Henry Mancini : reinventing film music
- Henry Ossawa Tanner : modern spirit
- Henry Taylor : the only portrait I ever painted of my momma was stolen
- Heretics! : the wondrous (and dangerous) beginnings of modern philosophy
- Herman's Hermits : listen people, 1964-1969
- Hidden in the mix : the African American presence in country music
- Hidden patterns : studies in psychoanalytic literary criticism
- Hidden places : Maine writers on coastal villages, mill towns, and the north country