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.

José Manuel Matilla and Manuela Mena, Goya Drawings. Thames and Hudson, 360pp., 250 ills., $35 cloth.

Monique A. Bedasse, Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization. University of North Carolina Press, 270pp.

Ennis B. Edmonds, Rastafari: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 144pp.

Dean MacNeil, The Bible and Bob Marley: Half the Story Has Never Been Told. Cascade Books, 166pp.

Barbara Makeda Blake Hannah, Rastafari—The New Creation. Gold Medal Edition. Jamaican Media Productions Ltd., 136pp.

Hélène Lee, The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism. Chicago Review Press, 320pp.

Augustine, Confessions. Trans. Peter Constantine. Foreword by Jack Miles. Liveright, 368pp., $17 paper.

Augustine, Confessions. Trans. Sarah Ruden. Modern Library, 528pp., $16 paper.

Volker Braun, Rubble Flora, trans. David Constantine and Karen Leeder. Seagull Books, 144pp., $12.50 paper.

Eric Eidelstein, Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs. 33 1/3 Series. Continuum, 144pp., $15 paper.