AGELESS: The New Science of Getting Older With out Getting Outdated, by Andrew Steele. (Anchor, 352 pp., $17.) A biologist and physicist describes how our bodily techniques decline over time and examines the rising therapies trying to gradual that course of. “Our final aspiration, Steele makes clear, shouldn’t be merely enhancing folks’s high quality of life as they age,” our reviewer, Annie Murphy Paul, famous. “It ought to be radically extending the human life span.”
OF WOMEN AND SALT, by Gabriela Garcia. (Flatiron, 224 pp., $16.99.) Based on our reviewer, Danielle Evans, this debut novel tracing 5 generations of Latinas in the end facilities on “the politics of what it takes to navigate the world as ladies — how ladies study to just accept brutality, how they escape it and after they study to make use of it themselves.”
DRUG USE FOR GROWN-UPS: Chasing Liberty within the Land of Worry, by Carl L. Hart. (Penguin, 304 pp., $17.) A world-leading knowledgeable on the psychological results of leisure drug use shares his expertise as a daily heroin shopper and argues convincingly in favor of legalizing opiate use. “In relation to the legacy of this nation’s struggle on medication,” our reviewer, Casey Schwartz, commented, “we must always all share his outrage.”
THE PUSH, by Ashley Audrain. (Penguin, 336 pp., $17.) This chilling debut novel follows Blythe Connor as she struggles adapting to the realities of motherhood, a disconnect along with her new child daughter and the seismic adjustments in her relationship along with her husband. As our reviewer, Claire Martin, put it, “Blythe’s postpartum expertise is acquainted, and Audrain renders it flawlessly.”
RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM, by Benjamin M. Friedman. (Classic, 560 pp., $20.) “If somebody had instructed me {that a} former chairman of the Harvard economics division would write a significant work on Calvinism and its affect, you’ll have needed to contemplate me a skeptic,” our reviewer, Alan Wolfe, commented. “Nonetheless Benjamin M. Friedman has, and the result’s an awakening all its personal.”
A TIP FOR THE HANGMAN, by Allison Epstein. (Anchor, 384 pp., $17.) The life and homicide of the Elizabethan poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe have supplied recurring inspiration to fiction writers. Reviewing this novel in her crime column, Sarah Weinman took notice of its trendy prose and interval analysis; Epstein, she noticed, “breathes life right into a celebrated determine, which makes his demise all of the extra abrupt and horrific.”
