Team Favorites: August 2022

Illustration by Grace Comia

Each month, our team at Humankind Zine curates a list of our top favorites. From Matt Maeson's latest album Never Had To Leave to Joan Didion's timeless The White Album, we've got you covered with new media and old gems. Keep scrolling for more recommendations from our team.

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To Listen

Songs

• “Bitch I'm Nice” by Doechii

• “Blood Runs Red” by Matt Maeson

• “Cardboard Box” by FLO

• “Deadbeat” by NUFFER

• "Hot Girl (Bodies Bodies Bodies)" by Charli XCX

• “I Said Goodbye to Me” by Harry Nilsson

• “Lonely As You” by Matt Maeson

• “Mary On A Cross” by Ghost

• “Nelsonwood Lane” by Matt Maeson

Albums

• Never Had to Leave, Matt Maeson

• New Jeans (EP), NewJeans

Podcasts

• Noble Blood by Dana Schwart

• Blonde Vibrations by Lilyemma & Eliz

• How to Start Over by The Atlantic

• Maintenance Phase by Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes

• You Must Remember This by Karina Longworth

  • Particularly the Manson family season! So well researched and perfect for true crime newbies

• Wet Brain Podcast with Honor Levy and Walter Pearce

• Betwixt the Sheets: Sex, Scandal & Society by History Hit

  • It’s got a feminist flavor to it and most episodes come with a warning for murder, misogyny, or mature language

To Watch

TV Shows

• The Sandman (2022)

• Little Women (2022)

• Anne With An E (2o17)

• Big Mouth (2022)

• The Rehearsal (2022)

• Love Island UK (2015)

• The Midnight Gospel (2020)

Movie

• Tune In For Love (2019 dir. Jung Ji-woo)

To Read

• The White Album by Joan Didion (1970)

• As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh

• Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang

• The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie

• Everyone in this Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

• The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

• I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

• The House on the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

• The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld