New and noteworthy books in the arts and humanities.
Douglas Eklund and Ian Alteveer, eds. Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, exhibition catalog Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 196pp., 222 color ills., $50 cloth.
Lewis Glinert, The Story of Hebrew. Princeton University Press, 296pp., 34 b/w ills., $19 paper.
Jenny Erpenbeck. Go, Went, Gone. Trans. Susan Bernofsky. New Directions Publishing, 286pp., $17 paper.
Jenny Erpenbeck. Visitation. Trans. Susan Bernofsky. New Directions Publishing, 151pp., $16 paper.
James Q. Whitman, Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law. Princeton University Press, 224pp., $15 paper
Jonathan Gienapp, The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 464pp., $35 cloth.
Eric J. Segall, Originalism as Faith. Cambridge University Press, 254pp., $25 paper.
Maya Rao, Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier. Public Affairs, 336pp., $27 cloth.
Richard Rhodes, Energy: A Human History. Simon & Schuster, 480pp., $30 cloth.
Vaclav Smil, Energy and Civilization: A History. MIT Press, 568pp., 113 ills., $20 paper.
Miriam Toews, Women Talking. Bloomsbury, 240pp., $24 cloth.
David Scott Kastan with Stephen Farthing, On Color. Yale University Press, 272pp. $28 cloth.
William Carlsen, Jungle of Stone: The Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood. William Morrow, 544pp., $18 paper.
Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest. University of Texas Press, 216pp, $17 paper.
Richard J. Evans, Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History. Oxford University Press, 800pp., $40 cloth.