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 compact, unsentimental novel about a retired man discovering that the story he tells about his past may be wrong. Few books make the gap between the life we lived and the version we preserve feel so consequential.
Read more →Loose, observant folk-rock with traces of David Berman, The Band, and early Wilco. Its leaderless, four-person chemistry offers a small model of creativity after ambition stops needing a single person at the center.
Listen →A patient Italian film about two men, their fathers, and the radically different lives created by staying versus leaving. It refuses the easy assumption that either motion or rootedness automatically makes a life fuller.
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