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• Books: “On Compromise and Rotten Compromises.”

In a provocative book, Margalit—a professor emeritus of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton—claims that “rotten compromises are not allowed, even for the sake of peace.” Focussing on the . . ....

• Books: Geoff Dyer’s “Zona” review.

In Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 film “Zona” (better known in English as “Stalker”), an outlaw-cum-shaman known as Stalker escorts two men, named Writer and Professor, through an uncanny, Chernobyl-like Zone in order to reach The Room, where innermost wishes are supposedly granted . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Verdi’s Shakespeare” review.

In the essays collected here, Wills examines how Verdi—who, though he did not read English, “adored Shakespeare”—composed and staged “Macbeth,” “Otello,” and “Falstaff,” all “solid masterpieces,” and the latter two “arguably the greatest things he . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Young Romantics.”

Hay examines the “turbulent communal existence” of the English Romantic poets, astutely parsing the intricate circumstances that led to this network’s distinctive creative output; she shows, for instance, that “Frankenstein” emerged not merely out of fireside “conversations about ghosts and galvanism” but . . ....

• Books: “Believing Is Seeing” review.

Morris frames these conversational essays as “a collection of mystery stories,” casting himself as a detective charged with investigating the contested reality behind a photograph or set of photographs. He is drawn to documentary images—for example, of the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the Depression . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Joan Mitchell”

8220;I’ve always painted out of omnipotence,” the renowned Abstract Expressionist Joan Mitchell wrote. Albers’s ambitious, capacious biography channels the notorious bravado of a woman it casts as an “eidetic synesthete,” who suffered from alcoholism, depression, and seasonal affective disorder. As we follow . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “The Golden Mean.”

This vivid imagining of the encounter between Aristotle and the young Alexander the Great casts the philosopher as a manic-depressive, veering “from black melancholy to golden joy.” At the novel’s start, Aristotle is in his early forties, his major treatises still ahead of him. He . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Adam Gopnik: “The Lord of the Rings,” “Twilight,” and young-adult fantasy books.

At Oxford in the nineteen-forties, Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was generally considered the most boring lecturer around, teaching the most boring subject known to man, Anglo-Saxon philology and literature, in the most boring way imaginable. “Incoherent and often inaudible” was Kingsley Amis’s verdict . . ....

• Books: “The Bradshaw Variations.”

The Bradshaws, Thomas and Tonie, live in a “convenient, middle-sized town an hour from London,” populated by “fretful-looking, badly paid liberal professionals.” Tonie has been made head of her university English department, leaving Thomas to look after their eight-year-old daughter, while learning . . ....

• Kelefa Sanneh: Jay-Z’s “Decoded” and the language of hip-hop.

Last year, an English professor named Adam Bradley issued a manifesto to his fellow-scholars. He urged them to expand the poetic canon, and possibly enlarge poetry’s audience, by embracing, or coöpting, the greatest hits of hip-hop. “Thanks to the engines of global commerce . . ....

• Books: “Emma Goldman” review.

Gornick’s arresting portrait of the anarchist Emma Goldman (1869-1940), whom J. Edgar Hoover called “the most dangerous woman in America,” is less a political history and more an illumination of “the existential drive behind radical politics.” Goldman, a Russian immigrant who taught herself English . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “The Imperfectionists.”

This acute début portrays the world of neurotic journalists—“as touchy as cabaret performers and as stubborn as factory machinists”—at an English-language paper in Rome. Vignettes introduce us to various characters: a naïve Cairo stringer; an obituary writer unable to . . ....

• Books: “Pigeon English.”

The narrator of Kelman’s first novel, a Ghanaian immigrant named Harrison Opoku, is in most ways an average eleven-year-old: entertained by flatulence, captivated by YouTube (“a place on the internet just for films of things eating each other”), caught between childhood and maturity (girlfriends . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “The Literary Conference.”

Aira, an experimental Argentine writer, has published more than sixty books, though only a few have appeared in English. At a literary conference, César, the protagonist—author and translator by day, mad scientist by night—hatches a plan to rule the world by creating an army . . ....

• Ben McGrath: A historian fact-checks “Boardwalk Empire.”

In Atlantic City last summer, Bryant Simon, a Temple University history professor, was ticketed for running a red light—on foot. “I think you can get a ticket for anything here,” he said the other day. “This is notoriously a shakedown town.” Simon, who grew . . ....

• Books: “Intern Nation”

Since the nineteen-eighties, internships have proliferated, and in this study Perlin estimates that seventy-five per cent of students at four-year colleges now intern at least once. As he shows, the arrangement entails a “curious blend of privilege and exploitation.” The word “intern” has . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Adam Gopnik: What “Mad Men” shows about American pop culture.

When the new season of “Mad Men” began, just a few weeks ago, it carried with it an argument about whether the spell it casts is largely a product of its beautifully detailed early-sixties setting or whether, as Matthew Weiner, its creator, insisted, it’s not . . ....

• Books: “A Mountain of Crumbs”

Gorokhova’s memoir of Cold War Leningrad recalls her life as a bright, hardworking schoolgirl who gets perfect marks and can recite Party-approved lines of Pushkin and Turgenev from memory. At an early age, she is seduced by the sound of English: “Palatalized l’s and . . ....

• Books: “The Tragedy of Arthur.”

Did Arthur Phillips’s father, a convicted forger who was also named Arthur Phillips, discover, in the private library of an English manor house, a previously unknown early Shakespeare play called “The Tragedy of Arthur”? This is what Arthur Phillips the younger both suggests and frantically denies . . . (Subscription required.)...

• David Treuer’s “Rez Life” review.

8220;Indians are famous for a few things—for a kind of off-brand environmentalism, Sitting Bull, and broken English, and most of all for being poor,” Treuer writes in this study of Native American reservations. His upbringing on an Ojibwe reservation in Minnesota makes him adept at . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Richard Brody: Joseph Losey’s “The Damned.”

paragraph class="noindent">The very first images in Joseph Losey’s 1961 drama “These Are the Damned” (in the “Hammer Films” three-disk set, from Columbia) set a tone of chilled alienation that’s utterly of its time, as does the action with which . . ....

• Books: “Three Stages of Amazement.”

Edgarian’s second novel follows an idealistic couple who want their marriage to be “a flexible, romantic sort of agreement” but find that it has become “a mousetrap.” Lena used to be a “nail-the-bastards” radio producer; now she cares for two . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Three Stages of Amazement.”

Edgarian’s second novel follows an idealistic couple who want their marriage to be “a flexible, romantic sort of agreement” but find that it has become “a mousetrap.” Lena used to be a “nail-the-bastards” radio producer; now she cares for two . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Not for Profit.”

Nussbaum, a philosopher who teaches at the University of Chicago, candidly describes her latest book as a “manifesto, not an empirical study.” She is alarmed by the degree to which the humanities are being pushed aside—at all levels of schooling and in countries around the world . . ....

• Yiyun Li: “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.”

8220;Here’s a fact for you America-philes,” a certain Major Tang, in the Army in which I had once served, liked to say when he caught us memorizing English vocabulary. “The moon in America is no bigger or brighter than the moon in China.&#8221 . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: Victor Cha’s “The Impossible State” review.

8220;Industrialized,” “urbanized,” and “high tech” are not words one typically associates with North Korea. Yet, in the wake of the Second World War, as China and the U.S.S.R. vied for influence in the Korean peninsula, it was just that. Since then, political paranoia, economic . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Popular Hits of the Showa Era.”

Murakami, the aging enfant terrible of Japanese letters, built his reputation on gleefully shocking novels, peopled by sexual deviants and murderous psychopaths. His latest work to be published in English concerns a quintet of torpid young men who share a taste for karaoke, rock-paper-scissors, and “droolingly mindless . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Popular Hits of the Showa Era.”

Murakami, the aging enfant terrible of Japanese letters, built his reputation on gleefully shocking novels, peopled by sexual deviants and murderous psychopaths. His latest work to be published in English concerns a quintet of torpid young men who share a taste for karaoke, rock-paper-scissors, and “droolingly mindless . . . (Subscription required.)...