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 captive 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 short novel that upends Persian artistic traditions.
By Amir-Hussein Radjy
Nonfiction
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Misty Copeland on 'Serenade,' Democracy and the Art of Movement
The ballet dancer reviews Toni Bentley's sixth volume: function memoir, part ode to George Balanchine and the art course he immortalized.
By Misty Copeland
Editors' Choice
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nine 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, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children'due south books and more.
Fiction
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A Visit to 'The Processed House'
Jennifer Egan's ambitious new novel — a sequel, of sorts, to 2010'southward "A Visit From the Goon Squad" — riffs on retention, authenticity and the attraction of new engineering science.
Past James Poniewozik
By the Book
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Fifty-fifty 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.'"
Criminal offense & Mystery
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They Were Higher Friends. At present They're Art Thieves.
Grace D. Li'due south debut, "Portrait of a Thief," is both a heist novel and a reckoning.
By Sarah Weinman
Nonfiction
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World War II, Ukraine and the Future of Conflict
Richard Overy'south prodigious "Claret and Ruins" is a sweeping history of World State of 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 young teacher in 1980s France and a bureaucrat in a dystopian future Commonwealth of australia.
By Alex Preston
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nonfiction
The Man Who Fabricated Thinking Erotic
Jerry Z. Muller's "Professor of Apocalypse" tells the story of Jacob Taubes, who is largely forgotten today just was at the center of intellectual life later on the war.
By Marking Lilla
The shortlist
Poems of Exile, Introspection and Self-Discovery (Cicadas, Besides)
New collections from Akwaeke Emezi, Solmaz Sharif, Colm Toibin and Phoebe Giannisi.
By Jessica Gigot
New in Paperback: 'Second Place' and 'Lady Bird Johnson'
Half-dozen new paperbacks to check out this week.
By Miguel Salazar
Newly Published Verse, 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.
Picture Books
The First Fully Illustrated Pick of Pablo Neruda's Question Poems
"Book of Questions," the Nobel laureate's last great work of poetry, is lyrical, meditative, philosophical. Is it besides for children?
By Joyce Maynard
The Poetry outcome
The Shape of the Void: Toward a Definition of Poesy
"Poetry leaves something out," our columnist Elisa Gabbert says. Merely that's hardly the extent of it.
By Elisa Gabbert
The Poetry Issue
A Poet'southward Poet: The Astonishing Career of John Keats
Robert Pinsky reviews Lucasta Miller'south "Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and 1 Epitaph."
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The Poetry Issue
In Edna St. Vincent Millay'southward Diaries, the Individual Life of a Celebrity Poet
Vii decades subsequently 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 Book
Body of water Vuong Brings Books to Dejeuner Dates, 'Just in Case'
"I feel truer to myself while reading than I do experiencing the world through my body — and then whatever risk to read is ideal for me."
The poetry Outcome
Facing 'the Can't-See of the Futurity,' in Poesy and at the Chiropractor's
In "Now Do Yous Know Where You lot Are," the poet Dana Levin learns to write again and comes to terms with personal and political trauma.
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