A weekly series surfacing books, albums, and films worth a second look—or a first.
Three things to spend time with, chosen for their ideas as much as their reputation.
A young Italian innkeeper meets a dying American actress on the Ligurian coast in 1962, and the novel spirals across five decades. Warm, funny, and alert to failure, it understands that the stories we tell about our lives can both deceive us and keep us moving.
From the DrifterList archive →Recorded in Reykjavík with members of Sigur Rós, this patient meeting of post-rock and ambient electronica slowly accumulates into something larger than its parts. It rewards the kind of attention that does not need to announce itself.
From the DrifterList archive →Two strangers leave a train and spend one night walking through Vienna, giving each other the rarest thing: sustained attention. Its romance is inseparable from curiosity—the willingness to let another person’s mind change the shape of an evening.
From the DrifterList archive →