THE CHANDELIER, by Clarice Lispector. Translated from the Portuguese by Benjamin Moser and Magdalena Edwards. Edited by Benjamin Moser. (New Directions, $25.95.) Lispector’s characteristically hypnotic second novel, originally published in 1946 in her native Brazil, has just been translated into English for the first time. “No one sounds like Lispector — in English or Portuguese. No one thinks like her,” our critic Parul Sehgal writes. The book, about the interior life of a young, unhappy woman named Virginia, is “uniquely demanding — it’s baggy, claggy and contentedly glacial,” Sehgal writes, but it’s also “a vulnerable and moving performance — with a heart-stopping payoff.”

THE STREET PHILOSOPHY OF GARRY WINOGRAND, by Geoff Dyer. (University of Texas Press, $60.) Dyer’s latest book, physically imposing and visually sumptuous, pairs 100 brief essays by the author with 100 photographs by Garry Winogrand, including 18 color photographs previously unpublished. Winogrand, born in 1928, “captured the fallout from the midcentury American moment — those few decades, from the 1950s on, when placid middle-class prosperity started to give way to something less affluent, more fragmented and harder to define,” our critic Jennifer Szalai writes. “Dyer’s accompanying texts wear their erudition lightly. He makes ample and appreciative use of Very Serious Ideas from the likes of Erich Fromm, Marshall Berman and Richard Sennett, but it’s the specifics in the pictures themselves that most excite his imagination.”

THE HOUSE OF BROKEN ANGELS, by Luis Alberto Urrea. (Little, Brown, $27.) In Urrea’s sprawling, tender, funny and bighearted family saga, the de La Cruz clan gathers in San Diego to celebrate the 70th birthday of its patriarch, who is dying of cancer. “Urrea is intent on both celebrating the particularities of Mexican-American life and attacking the anti-Mexican racism that has been a part of American culture ever since the United States conquered quite a bit of Mexico,” Viet Thanh Nguyen writes in his review. ““What is Urrea’s novel but a Mexican-American novel that is also an American novel? American in the broadest possible sense, from the United States of America, north of the border, to Mexico and by implication all of the other countries south of the border that are also American. The novel disrespects borders.”

THE CADAVER KING AND THE COUNTRY DENTIST: A True Story of Injustice in the American South, by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington. (PublicAffairs, $28.) Tracing the wrongful convictions of two men in Mississippi in the early 1990s, the authors ask whether problems in our justice system stem from basic incompetence, bald racism or both. “Junk science convicted these men; real science set them free,” our reviewer, Elie Mystal, writes. “The inability of judges and jurors to tell the difference is why innocent men languish in jail while the prosecutors who put them there run for higher office.”

FAREWELL TO THE HORSE: A Cultural History, by Ulrich Raulff. (Liveright, $35.) Raulff ranges far and wide to tell the story of the complicated relationship between humans and horses — an elegy that is labyrinthine in the varied places it goes, but never frustrating. “He layers fact over myth over military anecdote over personal memory over Darwin over Napoleon over Tolstoy over Gehlen until the book resembles an oil painting of outrageous complexity, so thickly laden with paint that it would take years to scrape down to its blank canvas,” C. E. Morgan writes in her review. “It’s a bold play, a kind of intellectual onslaught. … Raulff mostly succeeds and succeeds remarkably.”