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Newly Published, From the Birth of Hip-Hop to Elena Ferrante

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ULYSSES, by James Joyce. (Folio, $795.) With illustrations by John Vernon Lord, this extravagant version of 500 copies celebrates the novel’s a centesimal anniversary.

BEATRIX POTTER: Drawn to Nature, edited by Annemarie Bilclough. (Rizzoli Electa, $45.) The accompanying catalog for an exhibition on the Victoria and Albert Museum in London collects the “Peter Rabbit” creator’s drawings, photographs and letters.

YO! The Early Days of Hip Hop 1982-84, images by Sophie Bramly. (ArtBook, $49.95.) Pictures documenting the start of hip-hop in New York seem alongside texts by Fab 5 Freddy, Girl Pink, Run-D.M.C. and extra.

YVES SAINT LAURENT MUSEUM MARRAKECH, by Studio KO. (Phaidon, $49.95.) A “candid diary” of the 1,423 days it took for the architects to conceive and construct this monument to the Parisian designer and his associate, Pierre Bergé.

QUIET PLACES: Collected Essays, by Peter Handke. Translated by Krishna Winston and Ralph Manheim. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.) This assortment by the 2019 Nobel Prize winner consists of essays on the refuge of loos, the varied manifestations of human exhaustion and the story of “the mushroom maniac,” a buddy who disappears in a match of obsession.

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THE TEARS OF A MAN FLOW INWARD: Rising Up within the Civil Warfare in Burundi, by Pacifique Irankunda. (Random Home, $27.) On this transferring memoir, Irankunda remembers dwelling by way of a 13-year civil battle that upended his life in Burundi when he was solely 4 years outdated and contemplates the lack of his nation’s tradition and custom to the violence.

WORLDS OF EXILE AND ILLUSION, by Ursula Ok. Le Guin. (Tor Books, $19.99.) This omnibus assortment gathers the primary three novels of Le Guin’s celebrated Hainish collection, together with “Rocannon’s World,” “Planet of Exile” and “Metropolis of Illusions,” and is launched by the E-book Assessment’s fantasy and science fiction columnist, Amal El-Mohtar.

IN THE MARGINS: On the Pleasures of Studying and Writing, by Elena Ferrante. (Europa, $14.99.) Ferrante displays on type, her literary influences, the “arduous journey” of girls in literature and particulars the struggles she’s confronted as a fiction author on this crisp essay assortment.

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