One Good Thing
Recommendations from the world of culture we think you should check out.
The two musicians tell the same stories of America for different generations.
Michelle Obama is great at making you feel like she’s your friend. That’s why her podcast is so good.
Inception’s cultural impact overshadows it — but a decade later, Christopher Nolan’s dream heist fantasy still earns its rep.
The Song of Achilles is like if The Old Guard was just about Joe and Nicky.
Watching the Titanic sink in real time is the only thing to soothe my frazzled nerves.
The South Korean thriller is like if John Wick was in the Hunger Games.
The cult hit documentary for the cult hit musical is finally on a cult hit streaming platform.
The rap duo’s tremendous fourth album puts America’s racial unrest to music.
Ellen Raskin’s 1978 novel is a technically perfect mystery. It’s also ideal reading for when you need an escape.
You can’t stop the pandemic. But you can read a housekeeping manual that tells you how to remove any stain imaginable.
Adult Swim’s kind-hearted Joe Pera Talks With You finds humor in life’s little details.
Hazel Jane Plante’s Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) is an amazing novel about death, love, and television.
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer spinoff about fighting the system has big things to say to 2020 audiences.
This Norwegian masterwork is over 1,000 pages long — and it may be the perfect book for the current moment.
The Good Fight is the absolutely ridiculous television show we need in these absolutely ridiculous times.
Remembering last year’s song of the summer during an endless emotional winter.
A fantastical society hides behind masks in Hardinge’s eerily on-point 2012 novel A Face Like Glass.
This German series has it all — twisty mysteries, will-they/won’t-they romances, and a train full of gold.
Fetch the Bolt Cutters is the impotent fury of right now in convenient album form.
Board Game Arena has 175 great games, an easy-to-use interface, and many ways to play with your friends.
It’s been two months since Parasite won Best Picture. Now you can stream it at home.
The ultimate quarantine playlist lasts just over 16 hours and features everybody from the Beatles to Frank Ocean.
And it’s free to play online!
Schlesinger, who also wrote the title track for That Thing You Do and most of the songs for The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, has died of Covid-19 complications at age 52.
Across six seasons and two networks, the terrifically funny comedy took on nearly every genre and pop culture trope.
The playful reality baking show celebrates the joy of sugar, friendship, and messing up.
If there’s justice in this world, Little Mix would have a No. 1 hit in the US.
The sci-fi series is one of the best TV shows ever made — and it’s finally streaming again.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons, out now on Nintendo Switch, is pure happiness in video game form.
Come for queer soulmates, stay for epic fantasy, families, demon flutes, and love triumphing amid censorship.
In the world of New Girl, spring 2020 still involves kissing, so the show has that going for it.
The specialty streaming service has an expansive collection of masterpieces, cult classics, and more.
From cafes to the ocean to a spring walk in the woods, they’re exactly the sounds you might be missing right now.
M.F.K. Fisher’s How to Cook a Wolf shows us how to take joy in the hardest of times.
It’s a short, sweet watch about two women in a potentially toxic relationship.
This video game is exactly what it sounds like. But it’s far more engaging than you might think it would be.
Her novels and novella dare to imagine a hopeful future for humanity. They’re exhilarating.
The series, set in the tech world of the ’80s and ’90s, has the hard-won optimism these times require.
In the game, you will play CDC employees racing to stop a disease from spreading across the globe.