Weekend Whats

What to Book: Benjamin Herold follows five families in very different places to track the unraveling of America’s suburbs. The excellent Alex Kotlowitz described the book as “astonishingly important.” Herold’s prose is smooth and he’s created a very detailed, rich ethnography. Check out Disillusioned.

+ What to Watch: Curb Your Enthusiasm’s final season is going to give you more of what you’re used to from the show. Which is exactly what we could use right now.

+ What to Read: “A person, especially a child, walking away from such a crash would be a small miracle; surviving in the Amazon for more than a week without supplies was almost too much to hope for.” William Ralston in The Atavist: The race to find four children who survived a plane crash deep in the Amazon.