NADINE JEWERE: Our own self, by Nadine Ijewere. (Prestel, $55.) The debut monograph of the first black woman to do a Vogue cover reflects the photographer’s roots in Nigeria, Jamaica and south-east London.
BIRD: Exploring the winged world, by Phaidon Editors. (Phaidon, $59.95.) Including contributions from Nick Cave, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Lorna Simpson, this volume of 300 images, from art to fashion to ornithology, documents the importance of the bird world to all of human society.
AFRO-ATLANTIC HISTORY, edited by Adriano Pedrosa and Tomás Toledo. (DelMonico Books/Museu de Arte de São Paulo, $69.95.) This five-century study boldly attempts to trace the lines of artistic influence, dialogue, and conflict in Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean.
THE ARCHITECTURE OF HEALTH: hospital design and the construction of dignity, by Michael P. Murphy Jr. with Jeffrey Mansfield and MASS Design Group. (Cooper Hewitt/Smithsonian Design Museum, $45.) Emergency care like you’ve never seen it before: how and why medical facilities evolved into the spaces they are today.
THE PAGES, by Hugo Hamilton. (Knopf, $28.) Lena Knecht travels from New York to Berlin with a first edition of Joseph Roth’s “Rebellion,” which sheds light on the political situation in Europe as the region increasingly reflects Weimar Germany’s slide into the Third Reich.
THE BLACK AGENDA: bold solutions for a broken system, edited by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman. (St. Martin’s, $28.99.) This collection brings together essays by black academics exploring how race interacts with everything from climate policy to health care to technology.
FREE LOVE, by Tessa Hadley. (Harper, $26.99.) Phyllis Fischer, a 40-year-old housewife in 1960s London, turns her life upside down after a compulsive affair with the son of family friends.
THE REVOLUTION THAT WAS NOT: GameStop, Reddit and the Small Investor Flee, by Spencer Jacob. (Portfolio, $28.) A former stock analyst provides a monthly breakdown of how Reddit users began collectively short-selling stock in GameStop in an effort to bring some of Wall Street’s wealthiest players to their knees.
