THE THIRD COAST: When Chicago Built the American Dream, by Thomas Dyja. Penguin Press, $29.95. This robust cultural history weaves together the stories of the artists, styles and ideas that developed in Chicago before and after World War II. MARGARET FULLER: A New American Life, by Megan Marshall. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30. Fuller's extensive intellectual accomplishments are set in contrast with her romantic disappointments. THE UNDIVIDED PAST: Humanity Beyond Our Differences, by David Cannadine. Knopf, $26.95. The human experience has been marked by cooperation as much as by conflict, a historian argues. Riverhead, $27.95. Wolitzer's enveloping novel offers a fresh take on the theme of self-invention, with a heroine who asks herself whether the ambitious men and women in her circle have inaccurately defined success. RED DOC, by Anne Carson. Knopf, $24.95. An impulse to mischief is behind the bizarreness of Carson's latest book of poetry, in which she returns to the Greek myth she explored in "Autobiography of Red." OVERBOOKED: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism, by Elizabeth Becker. Simon & Schuster, $28. Becker's exposé considers the global travel industry's growing toll on the planet. FARTHER AND WILDER: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson, by Blake Bailey. Knopf, $30. Bailey traces the agonizing collapse of the novelist's career after "The Lost Weekend." Translated by Clive James. Liveright, $29.95. James's limpid language is most effective as Dante climbs higher. A MAP OF TULSA, by Benjamin Lytal. Penguin, paper, $15. A summer romance brings this first novel's hero to see his hometown in a new light.