Featuring 307 Industry-First Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction, Children'sand YA Books KIRKUSVOL. LXXXVI, NO. 8 | 15 APRIL 2018 REVIEWS Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Gregory Pardlo’s nonfiction debut, Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America, is masterfully personal, with passages that come at you with the urgent force of his powerful convictions. p. 58 from the editor’s desk: Chairman Four Excellent New Books HERBERT SIMON President & Publisher BY CLAIBORNE SMITH MARC WINKELMAN # Chief Executive Officer MEG LABORDE KUEHN
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