ANAÏS NIN: A Sea of Lies, by Léonie Bischoff. Translated by Jenna Allen. (Fantagraphics, $29.99.) The writer’s exploration of her sensual inner life — “few know how many women live inside of me,” she says — is gorgeously rendered by Bischoff in rich, undulating, jewel-toned color pencil illustrations.
OFFSHORE LIGHTNING, by Saito Nazuna. Translated by Alexa Frank. (Drawn & Quarterly, $29.95.) The solitude and anguish of life in postwar Japan are portrayed in crisp black-and-white drawings in this collection, which includes the author’s early work and two recent graphic novellas focused on aging and death.
THING: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood, by Samuel Machado and Cynthia Sousa Machado with Steven M. Wise. (Island Press, paperback, $30.) Bold, powerful drawings explain the concept of animal personhood through the story of an elephant who has spent nearly five decades at the Bronx Zoo.
NUKING ALASKA: Notes of an Atomic Fugitive, by Peter Dunlap-Shohl. (Graphic Mundi, paperback, $19.95.) Dunlap-Shohl’s wacky, stylized illustrations capture the unsettling and nearly disastrous nuclear close calls that Alaskans experienced during the Cold War era.
LADY CAROLINE LAMB: A Free Spirit, by Antonia Fraser. (Pegasus, $28.95.) This lean biography of the 19th-century Anglo-Irish writer sheds light on her enigmatic life, from her domestic relationship with William Lamb to her literary exploits and notably tempestuous affair with the poet Lord Byron.
TABULA RASA: Volume 1, by John McPhee. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28.) At 92, the longtime New Yorker staff writer presents a “reminiscent montage” from his career, reflecting on shelved writing projects from over the years, on topics such as a 25,000-cow Indiana dairy farm, the construction of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and more.
A LITTLE LUCK, by Claudia Piñeiro. Translated by Frances Riddle. (Charco, paperback, $16.95.) In this novel, a woman returns to her Buenos neighborhood Aires 20 years after she left. Her past is waiting for her there, full of guilt, but so is a little luck.
BOGIE & BACALL: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood’s Greatest Love Affair, by William J. Mann. (Harper, $40.) Newly available archival material bolsters this dual biography of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, who met while filming 1944’s “To Have and Have Not.”