MI SANGRE, by Roj Rodriguez. (Hatje Cantz, $62.) An Austin-based photographer depicts everyday aspects of Mexican life and culture, from charros and escaramuzas to Lotería iconography, as well as how they are reimagined by Mexican Americans on the other side of the border.
AMOAKO BOAFO: Soul of Black Folks, edited by Larry Ossei-Mensah. (Cameron Books, $40.) This collection renders the Ghanaian artist’s rich portraits — centering Black joy and interiority — in calculated brushwork and finger painting.
COLLAGE: Women of the Prix Pictet Since 2008, edited by Prix Pictet. (Gestalten, $60.) This volume collects work by 64 illustrious women photographers on the theme of sustainability, from Polly Braden’s depictions of the impact of British austerity to Joana Choumali’s embroidery-layered images of walks at dawn.
FRESH FLY FABULOUS: 50 Years of Hip Hop Style, by Elizabeth Way and Elena Romero. (Rizzoli Electa, $55.) Slick Rick writes the foreword to this vibrant exploration of the birth, spread and evolution of hip-hop style — from rec rooms to red carpets — through images and analyses from stylists, designers and more.
THE HARD PARTS: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph, by Oksana Masters with Cassidy Randall. (Scribner, $28.) A 17-time Paralympic medalist recounts the abuses she endured as an orphan in post-Chernobyl Ukraine, her adoption in America, the struggle of losing both legs and how a lifelong determination fueled her athletic exploits.
ON WRITING AND FAILURE: Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer, by Stephen Marche. (Biblioasis, paperback, $12.95.) The Canadian novelist and essayist describes the defining role rejection has played in his career and reflects on its importance in the lives of notable writers, from Ovid to Dostoyevsky and Baldwin.
IRON CURTAIN: A Love Story, by Vesna Goldsworthy. (Norton, $28.95.) In an unnamed Soviet satellite state in 1984, the daughter of a powerful party official and a naïve British poet fall in love. Her reckonings with poverty, capitalism and the idea of “freedom” after moving with him to London are the subject of this bittersweet novel.
THE SHAMSHINE BLIND, by Paz Pardo. (Atria, $28.) In this clever sci-fi noir set in an alternate 2009 San Francisco, a depressed federal agent must stop a plot to release a “psychopigment” that will induce blind faith in the masses.
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