New and noteworthy books in the arts and humanities.
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.
David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. Macmillan, 704pp., $35 cloth.
Leon Kass and Hannah Mandelbaum, Reading Ruth: Birth, Redemption, and the Way of Israel. Paul Dry Books, 125pp., $17 paper.
T. J. Clark, If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present. Thames & Hudson, 240pp., $40.
Steven Grosby, Hebraism in Religion, History, and Politics: The Third Culture. Oxford University Press, 208pp., $85 cloth.
Richard Verdi, Poussin as a Painter: From Classicism to Abstraction. Reaktion Books, 352 pp., 223 color, 18 b/w illustrations, $50 cloth.