This Week's New York Times Editors' Picks
The editors and critics of the New York Times recommended 9 new books this week that run the gamut from the 50th anniversary celebration of Ms. magazine, Mona Awad's dark fairy tale "Rouge," and a reconstruction of one family's history during the Holocaust.
9 books
50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution
Katherine Spillar“Ms. was often prescient, anticipating and exploring topics that feel just as relevant today as they did at the time of writing.” —Anna Holmes in The New York Times
Hardcover, 2023
$50.00$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rouge
Mona Awad“Awad doesn’t let us off the hook in our willingness to consume and be consumed, in our inability to see beyond our glass coffins.” — Megan O’Grady in The New York Times
Dana Schwartz - on hiatus & Paul TremblayOut of stock
The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
Tom IrelandCredit...
“Ireland foresees a future where phage therapy could become a billion-dollar industry adapted to the needs of capitalist production with the aid of synthetic biology.”
—Alex Johnson in The New York Times
Michael Marshall & AdrianWoolfsonHardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
Tahir Hamut Izgil“As his title suggests, the terror is in the anticipation. This is in effect a psychological thriller, although the narrative unfolds like a classic horror movie as relative normalcy dissolves into a nightmare.” —Barbara Demick in The New York Times
The Bookseller
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Witching Tide
Margaret MeyerCredit...
“Left me feeling stirred, upset, even haunted ... a testament to both its fever-dream textures and moral complexity.” —Elizabeth Graver in The New York Times
Waterstones
& ScribnerHardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II
Judy Rakowsky“A moving and sometimes shocking book that often reads like a thriller. ... For readers unfamiliar with this history, it’s a readable introduction to the story.” —Richard J. Evans in The New York Times
New York Times Books & surlyspicePaperback, 2023
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Little Monsters
Adrienne Brodeur“Cleverly calculated to push all the buttons for a wide swath of women. ... A tale of dysfunction and buried secrets, set in and around moneyed Cape Cod.”
— Mary Pols in The New York Times
Gretchen Rubin & National Book Critics CircleOut of stock
In the ACT
Rachel Ingalls“Rejiggers a common science-fiction device to explore the murkier truths of marriage. ... We all have our dolls, externalized deposits of private consciousness, frivolous and precious.” —Audrey Wollen in The New York Times
New York Times Books & New DirectionsHardcover, 2023
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Centre
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi“It’s not just the skeletons lurking behind the ivy-covered walls of the institute that make the novel so propulsive — it’s also what ‘The Centre’ has to say about class and the interplay of language and identity.” —Rafael Frumkin in The New York Times
Gillian Flynn & rafael frumkinHardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book