Reihan Salam, Melting Pot or Civil War? A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case against Open Borders. Sentinel, 224pp., $27 cloth

Hanna Holborn Gray, An Academic Life: A Memoir. Princeton University Press, 352pp., $30 cloth

Karen Tongson, Why Karen Carpenter Matters. University of Texas Press. 152pp., $17 paper.

Fred Goodman, Why Lhasa de Sela Matters. University of Texas Press. 200pp., $17 paper.

John J. Curley, A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter and the Art of the Cold War. Yale University Press, 296p., 32 color and 136 b/w ills., $65 cloth.

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.