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.

Blake Gopnik, Warhol. Ecco, 976 pp., $45 cloth, $25 paper.