Thirty reviews and essays from the New York Times and various periodicals include early reviews from the 1930s and 1940s and recent scholarship covering the novels, the controversial play Mule
Bone (finally published and performed in 1991), The Sanctified Church (1981), Tell My Horse (1939), Moses, Man of the Mountains (1939), and Dust Tracks on the Road. Also includes an extensive
introduction, a bibliography of published and unpublished works, and two commissioned essays on Dust Tracks (Hurston's autobiography) and The Complete Stories (HarperCollins, 1995). The authors
include Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Cheryl A. Wall, Richard Wright, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Dolan Hubbard, Janet St. Clair, and Marion A. Thomas. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
