His expressive, color-drenched photographs distill the essence of his native Brazil, but for his upcoming book, photographer Marcelo Gomes is going darker. Experimenting with longer exposures but sticking to his now-signature journalistic style and layout, the aptly titled Taciturn Heart explores the moodier yin to the artist’s cheerful yang. Some images of dark blue oceans and mysterious women fill the limited-edition book with a sense of longing, while others prove that Gomes’s optimism is never lost.

Taciturn Heart is out now from Hassla Books
http://www.hasslabooks.com/

The debut novel from writer Katie Kitamura follows two men—a martial arts star and his longtime coach—over three days as they prepare for the fighter’s comeback battle. It’s a frank tale of graphic violence and rough-and-tumble masculinity rendered in pared-down prose, but what’s most startling about The Longshot is the fact that it was written by a woman. Kitamura, a young writer and art journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times as well as this magazine, crafts her beautifully sparse words and pointed language to highlight a story of kinship, male bonding, and staying true to oneself.

In Manhattan, hot night spots tend to burn out fast, but Indochine has kept the fire roaring for 25 years. A new book from Rizzoli chronicles two and a half decades of late nights, chic fêtes, and the unpredictable mix of megawatt celebrities and East Village club kids who congregated within the iconic downtown restaurant’s walls. With photographs by Patrick Demarchelier and Roxanne Lowit and anecdotes by New York legends like Salman Rushdie and Bob Colacello, the book spins through the names and faces who made Indochine a place to see and be seen. Which is all testament to the acute business acumen of proprietor Jean-Marc Houmard, the man who built a Manhattan institution and helped bridge the uptown-downtown divide in the process.