Ned Rorem, Critical Affairs: A Composer’s Journal. George Braziller, 1970, 216pp. Kindle version, Open Road Media, 2013.

Elizabeth McCracken, A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction. Ecco, $21.60 paper.

Mark Celinscak and Mehnaz Afridi, eds. Global Approaches to the Holocaust: Memory, History, and Representation. University of Nebraska Press, 312pp., $35 paper.

Andrew Graham-Dixon, Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found. W.W. Norton, 416pp., $45 cloth.

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