LOST LAD LONDON, VOL. 1, by Shima Shinya. (Yen Press, paper, $15.) In this graphic novel by the co-writer of the “Star Wars: The High Republic: The Edge of Balance” manga series, a Scotland Yard detective and a college student try to solve a murder on the London Underground.
SMAHTGUY: The Life and Times of Barney Frank, by Eric Orner. (Metropolitan, paper, $25.99.) A graphic account of the life of Barney Frank, one of the first openly gay members of Congress, by his longtime staff counsel and press secretary.
THE HIGH DESERT: Black. Punk. Nowhere, by James Spooner. (Harper, $26.99.) The director of the documentary “Afro-Punk” explores race, identity and adolescent love in this graphic memoir about growing up in a small California desert town in the late 1980s.
AMAZONA, by Canizales. (Graphic Universe, $21.99.) Andrea, a 19-year-old Indigenous Colombian woman mourning the death of her child, returns home with a hidden camera to capture evidence of her family’s displacement for mining.
THIS WILL NOT PASS: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future, by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns. (Simon & Schuster, $29.99.) Two New York Times reporters draw on hundreds of interviews and documents for a behind-the-scenes look into how the Democrats and Republicans faced the pandemic, the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.
THE MAN WHO SOLD AIR IN THE HOLY LAND, by Omer Friedlander. (Random House, $27.) This touching debut collection includes the stories of a divorced con artist who sells bottled “holy air” to tourists, a grieving mother who regrets sending her son to die “for a government I hate,” and a Jewish man racked with guilt after betraying his Palestinian friend.
WHAT CAN WE HOPE FOR? Essays on Politics, by Richard Rorty. Edited by W. P. Malecki and Chris Voparil. (Princeton University, $24.95.) These essays by the late philosopher, who in 1998 predicted the coming of a Trump-like presidency, consider populism, democracy, economic inequality, climate change and more.
INSPIRED: Understanding Creativity: A Journey Through Art, Science, and the Soul, by Matt Richtel. (Mariner, $29.99.) A science reporter for The Times argues that creativity “is as natural as reproduction itself” while exploring its evolutionary origins, examining its science and providing insight from notable creative types.
