Engage or escape? Here are some recommendations for bizarre times.

ESCAPE

Non-Fiction: A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II — Sonia Purnell

Fiction: The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-Six — Jonathon Keats

Fiction: Mercy — Joan Silber

Music: Tailspin — Eleni Mandell

TV: Colin From Accounts — Patrick Brammall, Harriet Dyer

ENGAGE:

Podcast: Bad History Will Kill America — Amicus. Dahlia Lithwick, Mark Joseph Stern, Sam Bagenstos and Jed Shugerman discuss the final cases of the Supreme Court term, involving birthright citizenship and independent federal agencies.

Podcast: F@#$ the AI Overlords: Cory Doctorow’s Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI — On the Media.

Essay: The Science That Turned Lizard Venom into GLP-1s Is Under Attack — Jeff Coller on the Trump Administration’s all-out assault on science funding.

Podcast: Donald Trump Can’t Quit the 2020 Election — The New Yorker Roundtable.

Opinion: The Incoherence of Blaming Mamdani for Anti-Jewish Violence — Peter Beinart.

Essay: When Following the Rules Leads to Disaster — Graeme Wood on the migrant disaster in Ceuta.