SEEK Denis Johnson (HarperCollins, $24, on sale May 2) The author of Jesus' Son and The Name of the World turns to nonfiction, taking on our uneasy world in this collection of essays.
BROTHEL Alexa Albert (Random House, $24.95, on sale May 8) Albert, a Harvard medical student, went to the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada to conduct a public-health study but wound up with a story about its women instead.
JOHN HENRY DAYS Colson Whitehead (Doubleday, $24.95, on sale May 15) From the author of The Intuitionist comes this novel about a press junketeer struggling with the legend of African-American folk hero John Henry.

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