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ASYLUM, by Umberto Nicola Nicoletti. (Rizzoli, $80.) Nicoletti captures the dignity and pain of L.G.B.T.Q. asylum seekers in these glossy monochrome portraits, accompanied by searing anonymous testimonies drawn from their letters.

THE ART OF RUTH E. CARTER: Costuming Black History and the Afrofuture, From Do the Right Thing to Black Panther, by Ruth E. Carter. (Chronicle, $40.) The celebrated costume designer reflects on over three decades of her work on films from Spike Lees School Daze to Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Presented alongside sketches, mood boards and photography by Awol Erizku.

MOVEMENT AT THE STILL POINT: An Ode to Dance, by Mark Mann. (Rizzoli, $60.) The eminent portraitist photographs dancers including Misty Copeland and Chita Rivera statically posed and mid-motion, capturing their verve in shimmering black and white.

THE NEW BIG 5: A Global Photography Project for Endangered Species, by Graeme Green. (Earth Aware Editions, $75.) Appropriating the term for the animals prized as trophies by hunters, this book features dazzling photos of elephants, gorillas, tigers, lions and polar bears along with essays from conservationists.

QUIETLY HOSTILE: Essays, by Samantha Irby. (Vintage, paperback, $17.) Irby brings humor and compassion to this wide-ranging essay collection, covering her love for the Dave Matthews Band, providing end-of-life care for her ailing mother and more.

THE FORBIDDEN TERRITORY OF A TERRIFYING WOMAN, by Molly Lynch. (Catapult, $27.) When a Canadian professor reluctantly living in Ann Arbor vanishes one night, her husband quickly learns that her disappearance is part of a larger phenomenon.

THE CHILE PROJECT: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism, by Sebastian Edwards. (Princeton, $32.) This history of Chiles controversial economic reforms after Pinochets 1973 takeover begins in 1955, when the U.S. began to train Chilean economists under the libertarian Milton Friedman.

MY SEARCH FOR WARREN HARDING, by Robert Plunket. (New Directions, paperback, $18.95.) Elliot Weiner, a bigoted academic, obsesses over a trunk of the former presidents love letters in this celebrated, long out-of-print antihero novel.

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