What’s New in Paperback: ‘Women and Salt’ and ‘Adult Drug Use’

AGELESS: The New Science of Aging Without Aging, Andrew Steele’s photo. (Anchor, 352 p., $17.) A biologist and physicist describes how our bodily systems decline over time and examines emerging treatments that seek to slow this process. “Steele makes it clear that our ultimate goal is not to improve the quality of life of people as they age,” said our critic Annie Murphy Paul. “It must be radically prolonging one’s lifespan.”

WOMEN AND SALT, Gabriela Garcia’s photo. (Flatiron, 224 people, $16.99.) According to our critic Danielle Evans, this first novel, tracing five generations of Latinas, ultimately focuses on “the politics of what it takes to navigate the world as women – how women learn to accept brutality, get rid of it, and when to learn to use it. themselves.”

MEDICATION FOR ADULTS: In Search of Freedom in a Land of Fear, by Carl L. Hart. (Penguin, 304 p., $17.) A world-leading expert on the mental effects of recreational drug use, he shares his experience as a regular heroin consumer and convincingly argues in favor of legalizing opium use. “As for the legacy of this country’s war on drugs,” said our critic, Casey Schwartz, “we should all share his anger.”

PUSH, Ashley Audrain’s photo. (Penguin, 336 p., $17.) This chilling debut novel follows Blythe Connor as she struggles to adapt to the realities of motherhood, her separation from her newborn daughter, and the seismic changes in her relationship with her husband. As our reviewer Claire Martin says, “Blythe’s postpartum experience is familiar and Audrain delivers it perfectly.”

RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM, by Benjamin M. Friedman. (Vintage, 560 p., $20.) “If someone told me that a former head of Harvard economics was going to write a major work on Calvinism and its influence, you would have seen me as a skeptic,” our critic Alan Wolfe said. “There’s still Benjamin M. Friedman, and the result is an awakening in itself.”

A TIP FOR The Executioner, Allison Epstein’s photo. (Anchor, 384 p., $17.) The life and murder of Elizabethan poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe has been a constant source of inspiration for fiction writers. Reviewing this novel in her crime column, Sarah Weinman noted her modern prose and period research; He observed that Epstein “given life to a famous figure whose death made his death all the more sudden and gruesome”.