Chris Vognar

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Carole V. Bell |Lauren LeBlanc |Wadzanai Mhute |Daneet Steffens |Kate Tuttle |Chris Vognar

Books are a year-round pleasure, but summer reading is an institution. As children, we read voraciously (whether for joy or to win prizes). As adults, summer is often the only time we can really lose ourselves in a book. Whether you’re looking for a romance novel to toss into your beach bag or something more mysterious to read on the lake house dock, this list of 75 books has something for every kind of reader.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Chris Vognar

A good murder mystery needs a victim that any number of people would want dead for any number of reasons. Agatha Christie used this principle to become the best-selling novelist of all time; in more recent years filmmakers and TV creators have followed suit, adding zeitgeisty flavor to the mix along with elements of the legal thriller. Let’s just say the shadow of “Law & Order” remains long.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Chris Vognar

Jesse Armstrong’s hit HBO series “Succession” served up a toxic family of striving media moguls, who spent four seasons backbiting and backstabbing, ultimately altering the course of national politics. The Roy clan could be hard to stomach, but they had wit and even charm. They were deeply human, from Kendall (Jeremy Strong), haunted by his conscience, to Roman (Kieran Culkin), gleefully detached from his. “Succession” could be tough to watch, but it never really lost its joy.

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Chris Vognar

Book Review When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World By Jordan ThomasRiverhead Books: 368 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.

2 weeks ago | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Chris Vognar

Paul Reubens in a scene from “Pee-wee as Himself,” a two-part documentary that premieres Friday, May 23, on HBO and HBO Max. Photo: Getty/HBOLooking directly into the camera, telling more of his life story than he has ever told before in public, Paul Reubens says: “I don’t want this to be like a legacy movie.”  The man better known as his alter ego Pee-wee Herman declares this without rancor but with conviction, and with a hunger for control that emerges several times for more than three hours.