New and noteworthy books in the arts and humanities.
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.
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.