To celebrate National Poetry Month, we're devoting an entire effect to the form.
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Nonfiction
He Created the First Known Picture show. Then He Vanished.
In his new book, "The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures," Paul Fischer investigates the life — and mysterious disappearance — of Louis Le Prince.
By Leah Greenblatt
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Within the All-time-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.
By Elisabeth Egan
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nonfiction
The Appalling Treatment of a Prisoner at Guantánamo
"The Forever Prisoner," past Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy, tells the story of a human being who has been held convict by the C.I.A. for 20 years.
By Robert F. Worth
Roving Eye
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Shocking the Bourgeoisie With Iran's Misunderstood Modernist
"Blind Owl," by Sadeq Hedayat, is a hallucinatory brusk novel that upends Persian creative traditions.
By Amir-Hussein Radjy
Nonfiction
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Misty Copeland on 'Serenade,' Commonwealth and the Art of Move
The ballet dancer reviews Toni Bentley'south sixth book: role memoir, part ode to George Balanchine and the art form he immortalized.
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Editors' Choice
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ix New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The Book Review Podcast
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Elizabeth Alexander on 'The Trayvon Generation'
Alexander talks about her new book, and Lucasta Miller discusses her biography of Keats.
Best Sellers
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Best-Seller Lists: April 24, 2022
All the lists: impress, east-books, fiction, nonfiction, children's books and more.
Fiction
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A Visit to 'The Candy House'
Jennifer Egan'southward aggressive new novel — a sequel, of sorts, to 2010's "A Visit From the Goon Squad" — riffs on memory, authenticity and the allure of new technology.
By James Poniewozik
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Even Margo Jefferson Sometimes Gets Sucked Into a Bad Thriller
"My ego says: 'Yous're better than this,'" says the Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic. "And my id says: 'Not today. Deal with it.'"
Crime & Mystery
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They Were College Friends. Now They're Art Thieves.
Grace D. Li's debut, "Portrait of a Thief," is both a heist novel and a reckoning.
By Sarah Weinman
Nonfiction
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Earth War Two, Ukraine and the Future of Conflict
Richard Overy'south prodigious "Blood and Ruins" is a sweeping history of World War II packed with lessons for the future.
By Josef Joffe
Fiction
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Immigrant Lives, Back to Back and Upside Down
Michelle de Kretser's two-part novel, "Scary Monsters," follows a immature teacher in 1980s French republic and a bureaucrat in a dystopian future Commonwealth of australia.
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The Man Who Made Thinking Erotic
Jerry Z. Muller's "Professor of Apocalypse" tells the story of Jacob Taubes, who is largely forgotten today only was at the center of intellectual life afterwards the war.
By Mark Lilla
The shortlist
Poems of Exile, Introspection and Self-Discovery (Cicadas, Likewise)
New collections from Akwaeke Emezi, Solmaz Sharif, Colm Toibin and Phoebe Giannisi.
By Jessica Gigot
New in Paperback: 'Second Identify' and 'Lady Bird Johnson'
Six new paperbacks to bank check out this week.
By Miguel Salazar
Newly Published Poetry, From Gaza to Zoom Rooms and More
A selection 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.
Movie Books
The Get-go Fully Illustrated Selection of Pablo Neruda'southward Question Poems
"Book of Questions," the Nobel laureate's last great work of poetry, is lyrical, meditative, philosophical. Is it also for children?
By Joyce Maynard
The Poetry consequence
The Shape of the Void: Toward a Definition of Poetry
"Poetry leaves something out," our columnist Elisa Gabbert says. Only that's hardly the extent of it.
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The Poetry Issue
A Poet's Poet: The Amazing Career of John Keats
Robert Pinsky reviews Lucasta Miller's "Keats: A Cursory Life in Ix Poems and One Epitaph."
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The Poetry Consequence
In Edna St. Vincent Millay's Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet
Seven decades after Millay's death, "Rapture and Melancholy" paints a picture of artistic triumph, romantic tumult and a daily life that descended into addiction.
By Heather Clark
By the Volume
Ocean Vuong Brings Books to Lunch Dates, 'Simply in Case'
"I feel truer to myself while reading than I do experiencing the world through my trunk — so any take a chance to read is ideal for me."
The poetry Issue
Facing 'the Can't-See of the Future,' in Poetry and at the Chiropractor's
In "Now Do You Know Where You Are," the poet Dana Levin learns to write over again and comes to terms with personal and political trauma.
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