New and noteworthy books in the arts and humanities.
Toulouse-Lautrec and the Stars of Paris. Text by Helen Burnham. Contributions by Mary Weaver Chapin, Joanna Wendel. MFA Publications, 112pp., 85 color ills., $30 cloth.
Tales of Japan: Traditional Stories of Monsters and Magic, illustrated by Kotaro Chiba. Chronicle Books, 168pp., $23 cloth.
Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism. Edited by Todd Bradway. Text by Barry Schwabsky. Contributions by Susan A. Van Scoy, Robert R. Shane, Louise Sørensen. D.A.P., 368pp., 420 color ills., $55 cloth.
Simon Winder, Lotharingia. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 528pp., $30 cloth.
Brenda Wineappel, ed., Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America, as told to Horace Traubel. Library of America, 221pp., $20 cloth.
Kristin L. Hoganson, The Heartland: An American History. Penguin Press, 432pp., $30 cloth.
John Poch, Texases: Poems. WordFarm, 89pp., $18 paper.
Stuart Kells, Shakespeare’s Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature. Counterpoint Press, 336pp., $26 cloth.