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.

Matt Wrbican, A is for Archive: Warhol’s World from A to Z. Andy Warhol Museum / Yale University Press, 316 pp., $48 cloth.

Dan Moller, The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano. Pegasus Books, 224pp., $28 cloth.

Civil War, directed by Alex Garland. A24 Films, 2024. 1 hr 49 min.

Jonathan Gray, Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste. New York University Press, 272 pp. $89 cloth, $30 paper.

Robert Trammell, Jack Ruby & The Origins of The Avant-Garde in Dallas and Other Stories. Introduction by Ben Fountain; afterword by David Searcy. Deep Vellum Publishing, 308pp., $17 paper.

Flannery, directed by Elizabeth Coffman and Mark Bosco, S.J. Long Distance Productions, 2019. 1 hr., 36 min.

Andrew D. Kaufman, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky. Riverhead Books, 400pp., $20 paper.

Alex Christofi, Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life. Bloomsbury Continuum, 256pp., $35 cloth, $15 paper.

Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future: A Novel. Orbit, 576pp., $20 paper.

Samuel Goldman, After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of Division. University of Pennsylvania Press, 160pp., $30 cloth.