Nichols, Roger. Poulenc: A Biography. Yale, 352pp., $38 cloth.

Graham Johnson, Poulenc: The Life in the Songs. Liveright, 576pp., $50 cloth.

Jeffrey Israel, Living with Hate in American Politics and Religion: How Popular Culture Can Defuse Intractable Differences. Columbia University Press, 363pp. $65 cloth; $26 paper.

Max Weber, Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures. Edited by Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon; translated by Damion Searls. NYRB Classics, 176pp., $16 paper.

Crystal B. Lake, Artifacts: How We Think and Write About Found Objects. Johns Hopkins University Press, 272pp., $35 paper.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Golden Goblet: Selected Poems, translated by Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner. Deep Vellum, 234pp., $12 paper.

Kendra Greene, The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland’s Most Unusual Museums. 222pp., 37 drawings. Penguin Books, $22 cloth.

El Greco: Ambition and Defiance, edited by Rebecca J. Long, with essays by Keith Christiansen, Richard L. Kagan, Guillaume Kientz, Rebecca J. Long, Felipe Pereda, Jose Riello, and Leticia Ruiz Gomez, and contributions by Jena K. Carvana. Distributed by Yale University Press, 200pp., 148 color ills., $50 cloth.

Martin Kemp, Living with Leonardo: Fifty Years of Sanity and Insanity in the Art World and Beyond. Thames and Hudson, 288pp.,  $35 cloth.

Walter Isaacson, Leonardo da Vinci. Simon and Schuster, 624pp., $22 paper.

Mark Evan Bonds, Beethoven: Variations on a Life. Oxford University Press, 160pp., 10 ills., $19 cloth.

Joseph McBride, How Did Lubitsch Do It? Columbia University Press, 561pp., $22 paper.

Jung Young Moon, Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River. Trans. Yewon Jung. Deep Vellum Publishing, 168pp., $15 paper.

Anthony Peattie, The Private Life of Lord Byron. Unbound, xxi + 586 pp., £35 cloth.

Pascal Bruckner, An Imaginary Racism: Islamophobia and Guilt, trans. Steven Rendall and Lisa Neal. Polity Press, 204pp., $20 cloth.