(Editors' choices of other recent books of particular interest)

WRITING IN THE DARK, DANCING IN THE NEW YORKER, by Arlene Croce. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $40.) A big collection (768 pages) of untheoretical, unpolitical, vivid writing about dancing by a critic who maintained for 25 years that art was about beauty, not ideas.

OFF KECK ROAD, by Mona Simpson. (Knopf, $19.) A novel smaller and more delicate than is the author's wont, concerning three characters, all unmarried women in Green Bay, Wis., all living lives in which events are rare, emotion is slender and conclusions are inconclusive.

W. E. B. Du BOIS: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963, by David Levering Lewis. (John Macrae/ Holt, $35.) The second volume of Lewis's distinguished biography picks up Du Bois's life after World War I and pursues it through a series of trials and disappointments scarcely to be matched in the life of any scholar of any race.

HIROHITO AND THE MAKING OF MODERN JAPAN, by Herbert P. Bix. (HarperCollins, $35.) Based on recent Japanese scholarship and the author's own research, this biography finds the emperor neither a Hitler nor a pacifist but a flawed statesman, fully informed about what his country was up to, but almost always swayed by the current political wind.

ONE PALESTINE, COMPLETE: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate, by Tom Segev. (Metropolitan/Holt, $35.) The prehistory of Israel, told from three perspectives -- Jewish, Arab and British -- by an Israeli journalist who concludes that the mandate was the most important factor in forming the state, not, as so often maintained, an obstacle.

RIMBAUD, by Graham Robb. (Norton, $35.) A biography informed by close, intelligent reading of all Rimbaud's writings, not just the poetry he abandoned when he was 20 for a career of imperialist adventurism; Robb takes the life and work of Rimbaud in a single vision, as a unity not broken by separating the poet in France from the gunrunner in Africa.

LYING AWAKE, by Mark Salzman. (Knopf, $21.) A novel about a cloistered nun in Los Angeles, agonized by the discovery that her visions of God's love seem biologically based; by a writer skilled in the lucid presentation of spiritual states.

LICKS OF LOVE: Short Stories and a Sequel, by John Updike. (Knopf, $25.) Short stories sharing a theme of retrospect and a tone of forgiveness, and a 182-page novella, ''Rabbit Remembered,'' in which a contentious Thanksgiving dinner brings Rabbit Angstrom's survivors together to clash and to form new alliances.

TRILOBITE! Eyewitness to Evolution, by Richard Fortey. (Knopf, $26.) A British paleontologist's account of the shelly creatures that occupied, and sometimes dominated, the seas for about 300 million years. It's also a kind of informal handbook on the joys of small science and the recombinations of facts that often smoke out a scientific truth.

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