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Inthe New York Review of Books Holiday Issue

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Books

Book Review

Highlights

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    What is Poetry?

    To celebrate National Poetry Month, we're devoting an entire issue to the form.

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    Nonfiction

    He Created the First Known Movie. Then He Vanished.

    In his new book, "The Man Who Invented Movement Pictures," Paul Fischer investigates the life — and mysterious disappearance — of Louis Le Prince.

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      Within the Best-Seller List

      In '10 Steps to Nanette,' Hannah Gadsby Moves From Stage to Page

      The Australian comedian brings distinctive flair to the structure and tone of her memoir.

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    2. Photograph From left: Abu Zubaydah; Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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      The Appalling Handling of a Prisoner at Guantánamo

      "The Forever Prisoner," by Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy, tells the story of a man who has been held convict by the C.I.A. for 20 years.

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  1. Roving Centre

    Photo The Iranian writer Sadeq Hedayat (1903-51).
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    Shocking the Bourgeoisie With Iran's Misunderstood Modernist

    "Blind Owl," past Sadeq Hedayat, is a hallucinatory short novel that upends Western farsi artistic traditions.

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  2. Nonfiction

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    Misty Copeland on 'Serenade,' Republic and the Fine art of Movement

    The ballet dancer reviews Toni Bentley'south sixth book: part memoir, part ode to George Balanchine and the art form he immortalized.

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  3. Editors' Choice

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    ix New Books We Recommend This Week

    Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

  4. The Book Review Podcast

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    Elizabeth Alexander on 'The Trayvon Generation'

    Alexander talks nearly her new book, and Lucasta Miller discusses her biography of Keats.

  5. Best Sellers

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    Best-Seller Lists: Apr 24, 2022

    All the lists: impress, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children'south books and more.

  1. Fiction

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    A Visit to 'The Candy House'

    Jennifer Egan's ambitious new novel — a sequel, of sorts, to 2010's "A Visit From the Goon Squad" — riffs on memory, authenticity and the allure of new applied science.

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  2. By the Book

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    Fifty-fifty Margo Jefferson Sometimes Gets Sucked Into a Bad Thriller

    "My ego says: 'Y'all're better than this,'" says the Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic. "And my id says: 'Not today. Deal with it.'"

  3. Crime & Mystery

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    They Were Higher Friends. Now They're Art Thieves.

    Grace D. Li's debut, "Portrait of a Thief," is both a heist novel and a reckoning.

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  4. Nonfiction

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    Earth War Two, Ukraine and the Future of Conflict

    Richard Overy'southward biggy "Claret and Ruins" is a sweeping history of Globe War Ii packed with lessons for the future.

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  5. Fiction

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    Immigrant Lives, Back to Back and Upside Downward

    Michelle de Kretser's two-part novel, "Scary Monsters," follows a young teacher in 1980s France and a bureaucrat in a dystopian future Australia.

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  1. The shortlist

    Poems of Exile, Introspection and Cocky-Discovery (Cicadas, Too)

    New collections from Akwaeke Emezi, Solmaz Sharif, Colm Toibin and Phoebe Giannisi.

    By Jessica Gigot

  2. New in Paperback: '2d Place' and 'Lady Bird Johnson'

    6 new paperbacks to bank check out this week.

    By Miguel Salazar

  3. Newly Published Verse, From Gaza to Zoom Rooms and More than

    A choice of new poetry collections, from Mosab Abu Toha, Marlanda Dekine, Basie Allen, Shane McCrae, Ama Asantewa Diaka, Mary Jo Salter, Eloisa Amezcua and D. Nurkse.

  4. Picture Books

    The Kickoff Fully Illustrated Pick of Pablo Neruda'southward Question Poems

    "Book of Questions," the Nobel laureate'southward concluding great work of poetry, is lyrical, meditative, philosophical. Is it as well for children?

    Past Joyce Maynard

  5. The Verse effect

    The Shape of the Void: Toward a Definition of Poesy

    "Poetry leaves something out," our columnist Elisa Gabbert says. Only that's hardly the extent of it.

    By Elisa Gabbert

  6. The Poetry Issue

    A Poet's Poet: The Amazing Career of John Keats

    Robert Pinsky reviews Lucasta Miller's "Keats: A Cursory Life in 9 Poems and 1 Epitaph."

    Past Robert Pinsky

  7. The Poesy Issue

    In Edna St. Vincent Millay'south Diaries, the Individual Life of a Celebrity Poet

    Seven decades later on Millay'south expiry, "Rapture and Melancholy" paints a picture show of creative triumph, romantic tumult and a daily life that descended into habit.

    Past Heather Clark

  8. By the Book

    Ocean Vuong Brings Books to Lunch Dates, 'Simply in Example'

    "I feel truer to myself while reading than I do experiencing the earth through my body — and then any adventure to read is ideal for me."

  9. The poetry Result

    Facing 'the Can't-Run across of the Future,' in Verse and at the Chiropractor's

    In "Now Exercise Y'all Know Where Yous Are," the poet Dana Levin learns to write once more and comes to terms with personal and political trauma.

    By Srikanth Reddy

  10. The Poetry issue

    A Poet Looks at the End of the World, and Reaches for Hope

    In "Awning," her 7th drove, Linda Gregerson mourns for humanity and the earth fifty-fifty every bit she clings to signs of personal connexion.

    By Stephanie Burt

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