Weekend Whats

What to Book: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson is “a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us.” In addition to being a good story, people I trust say that Robinson gets science right. Need a warmup? Marina Korena in The Atlantic (Gift Article): The Oceans We Knew Are Already Gone.

+ What to Movie: Ease into the blockbustery Oscars weekend with Juliette Binoche in The Taste of Things, a quiet, excellent movie the follows a love story between two chefs and between the audience and food.

+ What to Doc: “America has long obsessed over celebrity and the quest for fame. Thirty years ago, millions of moviegoers got to see that desire up close thanks to the groundbreaking documentary Hoop Dreams, which focused on two teenage basketball players, Arthur Agee and William Gates. The pair never fulfilled their dream of making the NBA, but Agee and Gates ended up making more of an impact than many who did.” Hoop Dreams at 30. It was and is a great, timeless documentary. It’s available on Max and many other services.