New and noteworthy books in the arts and humanities.
Honor Levy, My First Book. Penguin Press, 224pp., $27 cloth.
Jordan Castro, The Novelist: A Novel. Soft Skull Press, 208pp., $17 paper.
Percival Everett, James: A Novel. Doubleday, 320pp., $28 cloth.
Nicolette Polek, Bitter Water Opera: A Novel. Gray Wolf Press, 136pp., $16 paper.
Robert Adams, Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values. Aperture Foundation, 112pp., $17 paper.
Sigrid Undset, Olav Audunssøn I: Vows. Translated by Tiina Nunnally. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 376 pp., $18 paper.
Grimaldi, Mario. The Painters of Pompeii: Roman Frescoes from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. Mondo Mostre, 185pp., color ills., $60 cloth.
Gjekë Marinaj, Teach Me How to Whisper: Horses and Other Poems, translated from the Albanian by Frederick Turner and Gjekë Marinaj. Syracuse University Press, 223pp., $40 paper.
Frederick Turner, Latter Days. Franciscan University Press, 160pp., $15 paper.
The Zone of Interest, directed by Jonathan Glazer. A24 Films, 2024. 1 hr 45 min.
Stephen Smith, The Scramble for Europe: Young Africa on Its Way to the Old Continent. Polity Press, $23, 200pp. paperback.
Joseph Horowitz, Dvořák’s Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music. Foreword by George Shirley. W. W. Norton, 256pp., $30 cloth.
Yve-Alain Bois, An Oblique Autobiography. No place press. 376pp., $20 paper.
Sigrid Undset, Olav Audunssøn II: Providence. Translated by Tiina Nunnally. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 280 pp., $18 paper.