One Way Back.

The long-anticipated memoir from Christine Blasey Ford, One Way Back (St. Martin’s Press), recounts the time in her life before the scientist’s name was emblazoned on T-shirts across America, before she became a kind of poster child for a post-Me Too fealty to the credibility of women, before, in short, she testified that she had been assaulted by a man who was lined up to assume a position on the Supreme Court. Today, in the wake of the overt politicization of the Court, it can be a little hard to conjure a time when such nominations felt impossibly consequential, but this memoir brings you there. It also paints a picture of the woman behind the complicated calculation who came forward with nuance and introspective insight. —C.S.