Short List: New & Noteworthy

America Eats!, a recipe-filled U.S. road trip by Pat Willard on the trail of traditional American food, past and present.

China: A Traveler's Literary Companion, an anthology of revealing short stories by Chinese writers, published in time for the Summer Olympics in Beijing, edited by Kirk A. Denton.

The Bottom of the Harbor, a new edition of New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell's classic collection of stories about New York, with an introduction by Luc Sante.

Telex from Cuba, a compelling first novel by Rachel Kushner inspired by her mother's experiences growing up on a U.S.-owned plantation in Cuba in the 1950s.