Edited by Andrew Schelling Oxford University Press ($55) by Graziano Krätli Religions typically evolve from individual and spontaneous to collective and organized forms of experience.

Macgregor Card Fence Books ($16) by Alexander Dickow Poetry Is No Joke (But an Endless and Repetitive One) The quest for originality yields a great

Edited by Robert Knopf and Julia Listengarten Yale University Press ($27) by Justin Maxwell This anthology offers a rare combination of breadth and depth, without

Helen DeWitt New Directions ($24.95) by Brent Cunningham Given the sundry occupations of the last couple months, the timing of Helen DeWitt’s wicked new satire

Erin Morgenstern Doubleday ($26.95) by Greg Baldino Authors, at their best, are illusionists. They shuffle language like cards, draw plot twists from up their sleeve,

Colson Whitehead Doubleday ($25.95) by Victoria Blake By his own admission, Colson Whitehead—MacArthur genius, Whiting winner, PEN/Faulkner finalist—is uncomfortable saying the word “zombie” fifty times

João Ubaldo Ribeiro translated by Clifford E. Landers Dalkey Archive Press ($13.95) by Shane Joaquin Jimenez João Ubaldo Ribeiro’s House of the Fortunate Buddhasrevels in the

Terry Bisson PM Press ($14.95) by Jade Bové Terry Bisson’s latest collection of short stories, TVA Baby, presents thirteen science fiction tales that focus on voyeurism

Neal Stephenson William Morrow ($35) by Alice Dodge Neal Stephenson is a rare breed of writer. His early novels—most notably Snow Crash—helped found the cyberpunk genre

David Bergen Counterpoint ($15.95) by Matthew Duffus Morris Schutt joins the ranks of fictional midlife crisis sufferers—a group varied enough to include both Moses Herzog