Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel. Pantheon, 336pp., $29 cloth.

Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Riverhead Books, 320pp., $20 paper.

Jonathan Lear, Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life. Belknap Press, 176pp. $20 paper.

Joseph Epstein, Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life, Especially If You’ve Had a Lucky Life. Free Press, 304pp., $30 cloth.

Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife. Simon & Schuster, 176pp., $28 cloth.

Dante: Inferno to Paradise, Episodes 1 & 2. PBS, 2024. Directed by Ric Burns.

Jennie Lightweis-Goff. Captive City: Meditations on Slavery in the Urban South. University of Pennsylvania Press, 224pp., $45 cloth.

Tevi Troy, The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry. Regnery, 333pp., $33 cloth.

Harry Crews, Body. Simon and Schuster, 240pp. cloth, out of print.

Henrik Pontoppidan, A Fortunate Man, trans. Paul Larkin, afterword by Flemming Behrendt. New York Review Books, 880pp., $30 paper.

Adam Kirsch, On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice. W.W. Norton, 160pp., $25 cloth

Brian Fairbanks, Willie, Waylon, and the Boys: How Nashville Outsiders Changed Country Music Forever. Hachette Books, 464pp., $32.50 cloth.

Steven Hyden, There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland. Hachette Books, 272pp., $32 cloth.

Harriet Baker, Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann. Allen Lane, 384pp., £25 cloth.

Yan Ge, Elsewhere: Stories. Scribner, 304pp., $27 cloth.