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.

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.

Honor Levy, My First Book. Penguin Press, 224pp., $27 cloth.

Lauren Oyler, No Judgment: Essays. HarperOne, 288pp., $29 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.