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.
An aging Sicilian prince watches his aristocratic world dissolve during the Risorgimento. The novel is unhurried, exact, and devastating about how people adapt to history while insisting they have remained unchanged.
From the DrifterList archive →Recorded in the Norwegian Arctic, this foundational ambient album sounds cold, vast, and nearly still. Its long drones create the unusual sensation that solitude can be not an absence but a fully inhabited place.
From the DrifterList archive →Benjamin Braddock returns from college and discovers that limitless possibility can feel exactly like paralysis. The film remains funny and strange because its anxiety is not really about youth—it is about the terror of choosing one life and closing off the others.
From the DrifterList archive →