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    1. A Poem That’s Like a Perfect First Date

      Frank O’Hara’s “Having a Coke With You” makes a charming first impression, and right away you want to get to know it better.

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      CreditMario Schifan/2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome; Manuscript via Bibliothèque de la danse Vincent-Warren
  1. 17 New Books Coming in April

    New novels from Emily Henry, Jo Piazza and Rachel Khong; a history of five ballerinas at the Dance Theater of Harlem; Salman Rushdie’s memoir and more.

     

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  2. Let Us Help You Find Your Next Book

    Reading picks from Book Review editors, guaranteed to suit any mood.

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  3. 17 Works of Nonfiction Coming This Spring

    Memoirs from Brittney Griner and Salman Rushdie, a look at pioneering Black ballerinas, a new historical account from Erik Larson — and plenty more.

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  4. 27 Works of Fiction Coming This Spring

    Stories by Amor Towles, a sequel to Colm Toibin’s “Brooklyn,” a new thriller by Tana French and more.

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  5. Best-Seller Lists: April 21, 2024

    All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.

     

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  1. Savages! Innocents! Sages! What Do We Really Know About Early Humans?

    In “The Invention of Prehistory,” the historian Stefanos Geroulanos argues that many of our theories about our remote ancestors tell us more about us than them.

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    Look like someone you know? No longer the hunched and hairy creatures of the 1980s and ’90s, Neanderthals are now depicted as blond and blue-eyed tool users.
    CreditSculpture: E.Daynes; Photo: S.Entressangle/LookatSciences, via Science Source
  2. Delmore Schwartz’s Poems Are Like Salt Flicked on the World

    A new omnibus compiles the poet’s books and unpublished work, including his two-part autobiographical masterpiece, “Genesis.”

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  3. She Lied, Cheated and Stole. Then She Wrote a Book About It.

    In her buzzy memoir, “Sociopath,” Patric Gagne shows herself more committed to revel in her naughtiness than to demystify the condition.

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  4. A Gender Theorist Who Just Wants Everyone to Get Along

    Judith Butler’s new book, “Who’s Afraid of Gender?,” tries to turn down the heat on an inflamed argument.

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    “To refuse gender is, sadly, to refuse to encounter ... the complexity that one finds in contemporary life across the world,” Butler writes.
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  5. A Warhol Superstar, but Never a Star

    Cynthia Carr’s compassionate biography chronicles the brief, poignant life of the transgender actress Candy Darling, whose “very existence was radical.”

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    A 1971 portrait of Candy Darling, promoting her role in the play “Vain Victory: The Vicissitudes of the Damned.”
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  9. Fiction

    What if K-Pop Stars Are Actually Just Like Us?

    In the debut novel “The Band,” a burned-out pop idol meets a disillusioned professor, raising the question: What if the dangers of fame resemble white-collar ennui?

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