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Belfort, Jordan. The Wolf of Investing: My Playbook for Making a Fortune on Wall Street. Gallery: S. & S. Oct. 2023. 256p. ISBN 9781982197056. $27.99. CD. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

Brooks, David. How To Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen. Random. Oct. 2023. 352p. ISBN 9780593230060. $30. lrg. prnt. CD. SOCIAL SCIENCE

Chast, Roz. I Must Be Dreaming. Bloomsbury. Oct. 2023. 128p. ISBN 9781620403228. $27.99. HUMOROUS/GN

Clark, John Lee. Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays. Norton. Oct. 2023. 192p. ISBN 9781324035367. $25. ESSAYS

Cross, Kim. In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America’s Child. Grand Central. Oct. 2023. 464p. ISBN 9781538725061. $32.50. Downloadable. TRUE CRIME

Krishnamurthy, Sowmya. Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion. Gallery: S. & S. Oct. 2023. 304p. ISBN 9781982176327. $28.99. FASHION

Lorenz, Taylor. Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet. S. & S. Oct. 2023. 352p. ISBN 9781982146863. $29.99. TECHNOLOGY

Lukianoff, Greg & Rikki Schlott. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution. S. & S. Oct. 2023. 432p. ISBN 9781668019146. $29.99. SOCIAL SCIENCE

Spooner, James & Chris L. Terry, eds. Black Punk Now. Soft Skull. Oct. 2023. 352p. 356p. ISBN 9781593767457. pap. $16.95. LITERATURE

Subject of the hit movie The Wolf of Wall Street, investment expert Belfort offers a guide to mastering the stock market with The Wolf of Investing. New York Times columnist Brooks explains How To Know a Person so that we can build better connections at home, on the job, and in life. Chast, the New York Times best-selling, National Book Critics Circle Award–winning New Yorker cartoonist, returns to plumb her sleepytime visions in I Must Be Dreaming (200,000-copy first printing). Born deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, the National Magazine Award–winning Clark is a leader in the Protactile movement, which espouses a special tactile language and a life lived by physical contact; his Touch the Future explains this life to illuminate the DeafBlind experience. Thirty years after the abduction of 12-year-old Polly Klass, the New York Times best-selling Cross's  In Light of All Darkness revisits the case and shows what it led to, including the Three-Strikes law, the Amber Alert System, and improved child-abduction protocols nationwide (60,000-copy first printing). For Fashion Killa, Krishnamurthy interviewed leaders in the fashion industry to explain how hip-hop artists and designers have revolutionized fashion in the last decades. Offering a social history of the internet, Washington Post reporter Lorenz’s Extremely Online explains how deeply it has changed our world, toppling traditional barriers, creating new economic sectors, and reinventing our understanding of connection, content, and power. Lukianoff and Schlott follow up The Coddling of the American Mind with The Canceling of the American Mind, which argues that both Left and Right use cancel culture to silence opposition and debate and win arguments through too-easy rhetoric. Celebrated Afro-Punk documentarian Spooner and novelist Terry (Black Card, Zero Fade), who played in various Virginia punk bands in his youth, compile contemporary nonfiction, fiction, illustrations, and comics that help explain Black Punk Now.

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