Okay, now that festival season has kick-started, our lives are all glitter, gatherings, and no time to breathe. If you are craving a break, there is nothing like hiding under a blanket and streaming something juicy. This week serves up Back to the Frontier, where modern families ditch Wi-Fi for butter churns and questionable bathrooms, Wednesday returning with darker mysteries and more psychic meltdowns, and the live-action Lilo and Stitch, which promises alien chaos and family feels. Consider your watchlist sorted.
As for your reading list, our third pick for The Nod Book Club is a book with themes that most readers will be familiar with—love, loss, and friendship. Amrita Mahale’s newest title, Real Life, lines up perfectly. Her second book is set in the foothills of the Himalayas, written from the perspective of diverse characters: two women with lives as intertwined yet as far apart as can be, and a man living a different reality. More on that and Arundhati Roy’s buzzy new release below.
