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.

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.

Emilie Demant Hatt, By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends. Translated by Barbara Sjoholm. University of Minnesota Press, 208pp., $23 cloth.

Fiona MacCarthy, Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus. Belknap Press, 560pp., $35 cloth.