Weekend Whats

What to Watch: Black Doves on Netflix, starring Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw, is like The Diplomat, meets Slow Horses, meets John Wick. It’s fun and fast-paced, and season two is better than season one (especially the addition of Ambika Mod).

+ What to Book: In a follow-up to his excellent novel The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach returns to the fictional campus of Westish College in his new and excellent novel, The Brightness. As Tom Perrotta says, “The Brightness is a monumental campus novel, full of smart and mercurial characters who feel as real as your own roommates.” (I swear, my freshman year college roommate was the president of the Berkeley Young Republicans. I once accidentally walked in on him and his girlfriend having sex. And I’ve been a Democrat ever since…)