Three books that came out this week. At the Louvre presents a hundred poems, newly commissioned exclusively for this volume, by a hundred of the world’s most vibrant poets. They write about works from the museum’s collection. They write about the museum and its history. They write what they see and feel, and together they take us on a tour of the museum and its galleries like no other. In 1967 the US military began its largest ground operation of the Vietnam War. Operation Cedar Falls was designed to seal off the area not far from Saigon and close to the Cambodian border known as the Iron Triangle, which was effectively governed by the National Liberation Front. A young journalist named Jonathan Schell accompanied the American armed forces into a village in the Iron Triangle called Ben Suc, which was quickly levelled and its residents moved into American camps (with no plans for where to relocate the residents in the future). Schell’s reportage, which became the book The Village of Ben Suc, changed the way Americans viewed the war, and remains a classic book of wartime reporting. Yuri Andrukhovych is one of the most compelling and influential contemporary Ukrainian writers. Set Change compiles poetry that Andrukhovych wrote in the eighties and nineties, when he drew on the rich resources of Ukrainian literature while coming to terms with the long history of violence and shifting borders of Eastern Europe. Andrukhovych’s poems are ironic and elegiac, witty and allusive, lyrical, experimental, and political. As translated into English by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin, they offer readers a powerfully transformative vision of the place of poetry in a fractured world.