Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

New on nybooks.com: Six new books about the Nazi concentration camps, the pleasures of Asttrid Lindgren, a newly discovered trove of New York police photographs, a great composer’s innovative work for player piano, and summer recommendations from New York Reviewcontributors.

The Anatomy of Hell Richard J. Evans The power of the “Holocaust” as a concept has all but obliterated other aspects of the crimes of the Nazis and driven the history of the concentration camps from cultural memory.   ADVERTISEMENT   A New Trip to Lindgren Land April Bernard Though best known for having created the wildly independent little girl Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren wrote many books not involving Pippi. Newly reissued,Seacrow Island may be among her greatest works.   In the NYPD’s Lost Archives Luc Sante The pictures are of undeniable photographic significance. Not every one is a masterpiece, but all display patient craftsmanship in their framing and lighting, making them seem lapidary, even definitive.   ADVERTISEMENT   The Prince of the Player Piano Andrew Katzenstein Conlon Nancarrow explored the limits of the player piano with staggering imagination and persistence, living in obscurity and near-isolation for years before his work was championed.   In the July 9 issue: Ann Kjellberg on Jonathan Galassi’s Muse, Fiona MacCarthy on Eleanor Marx, Joshua Hammer on Boko Haram, Tim Flannery on microbes, Marina Warner on the Brothers Grimm, Adam Shatz on jazz, Rachel Polonsky on Vladimir Sharov, and much more   FILM J. Hoberman: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s unsettling The Tribe is set in a high school for the deaf. Acted entirely in sign language by a cast of deaf non-professionals, it’s leisurely, graphic, and brutal (New York)   ARCHITECTURE Adam Thirlwell: Every year the Serpentine Gallery commissions a new pavilion for its grounds in Hyde Park. This year’s, by SelgasCano, is a construction of willed, delighted lightness (London)   ART Jon Landau: A show of twenty paintings by Rogier van der Weyden is as powerful as an exhibition of this scale can be. It shows that while he loved to pursue formal solutions to visual problems, his ultimate purpose was spiritual elevation—both his and ours (Madrid)   HISTORY Nathaniel Rich: In a city that has few markers memorializing its outsized part in the slave trade—and where the local Civil War Museum largely avoids mentioning the institution by name—“Purchased Lives” is an impassioned plea for honesty and self-knowledge (New Orleans)