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One of the best parts of writing about culture and entertainment for a living is the sheer amount of culture and entertainment we get to consume each year. But not everything gets in-depth coverages on our website and in the pages of our magazine, and there’s so much more we want to share with our readers.
Launching our weekly entertainment newsletter, More to the Story, midway through 2021 (subscribe here!), provided a new venue in which to recommend books, movies, TV shows, podcasts, music, theater, video games and more pop-culture ephemera to our readers on a regular basis. Here, we’ve rounded up every recommendation doled out in 2021, categorized by medium, including our writers’ passionate justifications for why each one is worth your time. Happy watching, reading and listening!
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Contents
Books
Cooking at Home
Irreverent celebrity chef David Chang and food journalist Priya Krishna have paired up to publish a cookbook with a major twist: it has no precise recipes. Cooking at Home: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Recipes (And Love My Microwave), coming on Oct. 26, is a lively instruction manual on how to wing it in the kitchen—the ideal guidebook for those of us who fell in love with having home-cooked meals during the pandemic but no longer have time to kill on fussy step-by-step recipes. The book features essays, interviews with food scientists and guidance on how to take basic ingredients like chicken thighs, rice or frozen vegetables and prepare them in simple, adaptable ways. Krishna offered TIME a tempting tip: “Make cacio e pepe in a blender. It’ll change your life.”—Lucy Feldman
Read More: David Chang and Priya Krishna Want You To Get Over Recipes
Crossroads
The master of sprawling family dramas, Jonathan Franzen is back with Crossroads , which finds the Hildebrandt family in crisis as Christmas approaches in 1971 Illinois. Matriarch Marion realizes the consequences of keeping a decades-long secret; her husband,…
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