Twelve books for the summer — new releases, modern classics, and two counterculture wildcards. One for every week, plus a few you'll finish in a single afternoon.

Ten books that teach you everything an English degree would — the ones that change how you read, how you think, and how you see the world.

Eight books technically written for younger readers that reward adult attention just as richly — from Ender's Game to Never Let Me Go, A Separate Peace to The Lovely Bones.

Eight films you can stream tonight — rediscovered classics that quietly landed on Netflix and HBO Max, plus the new releases actually worth your time.

Nine films that earn their tears honestly — from The Pursuit of Happyness to Up, Manchester by the Sea to Brian's Song. Films about love, loss, perseverance, and the things fathers do for their children.

Eight films to watch after Interstellar — science fiction that takes its ideas seriously, films about fathers and time, and cinema that earns its emotional ambition.

Eight essential Eastern European destinations — from Warsaw and Kraków to Tbilisi and Tallinn, Plovdiv to Lviv. The continent's most rewarding and underrated cities.

Eight essential books for backpacking Europe — from Hemingway's Paris to Kerouac's open road, these are the books that belong in your pack.

Five Greek islands worth visiting instead of Santorini — Naxos, Ikaria, Hydra, Folegandros, and Paros. Less crowded, just as beautiful, and in some cases more rewarding.

Eight albums for people who love Bon Iver's atmospheric, emotionally layered sound — some obvious, some not, all worth your time.

Eight albums for people who love OK Computer and Kid A — the anxiety, the electronics, the feeling that rock music wasn't enough anymore.

Ten books for people who loved Station Eleven — post-apocalyptic literary fiction, quiet dystopias, and novels that ask what survives when everything else doesn't.