Books, CDs, movies, and other stuff Slate writers liked this month.

Slate critics and columnists often recommend all sorts of useful and fascinating stuff: books, documentaries, Australian wines, ergonomic keyboards, and the like. Sometimes these endorsements appear in obvious spots (like our movie reviews), but just as often they come in unexpected places, as when our advice columnist Dear Prudence recommended a book on communicating with unruly teens. So, starting this month, we'll be publishing a handy monthly roundup of all the things we like, since we figure you'd like some of these things, too. Take a look at our latest favorites:

Books

Grigoris Balakian's Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide and Christopher de Bellaigue's Rebel Land: Travels Among Turkey's Forgotten Peoples
(Recommended by Christopher Hitchens in "Telling the Truth About the Armenian Genocide")

Amos Oz's Rhyming Life and Death
(Recommended by Judith Shulevitz in "Why Write While Israel Burns?")

Reza Aslan's How To Win a Cosmic War
(Recommended by Alan Wolfe in "Let's Fight Wars on Earth, Not in Heaven")

John Demos' The Enemy Within and Thomas Robisheaux's The Last Witch of Langenburg
(Recommended by Johann Hari in "Why the Wicked Witch Isn't Dead")

Frank Partnoy's The Match King
(Recommended by Sam Kean in "Where's Our Scapegoat?")

Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish's How To Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk
(Recommended by Dear Prudence in "Dream Lover")

Leslie Morgan Steiner's Crazy Love
(Recommended by Linda Hirshman in " Crazy Love, Crazy Choices")

John Harley Warner and James M. Edmonson's Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880–1930
(Recommended by Barron H. Lerner in "Gather 'Round the Cadaver")