Tracey Minkin

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Photo 12/Alamy Photo/Courtesy HBO Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Summer is time for BBQ, beaches — and binging on Max. Here are 21 good reasons to do so, from prestige TV series to the French Open, from hidden gems to famous classic films.

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Maarva (Fiona Shaw) in Lucasfilm's ANDOR, exclusively on Disney+ Courtesy Disney+ Facebook Twitter LinkedIn ​Andor, the Star Wars spinoff series now back on Disney+ for its second season, is not a Baby Yoda type of TV show.

2 months ago | veranda.com | Tracey Minkin

It feels like artist Pierre Mottier is channeling all of Switzerland into his slender blade. The jagged ridgelines of its Alps, the broad slopes of its chalets, the bristled branches of its forests—he slices these intricate shapes into the paper spread before us. I watch as he takes a breath, steadies his cutting hand, and traces the minute curve of a leafing tree, plucking out the tiny shards of paper with the knife’s tip and blowing them out of the way.

2 months ago | veranda.com | Tracey Minkin

I am not prepared for the wildness. I had envisioned the Mekong River, Southeast Asia’s great waterway that carves a path from the plateaus of Tibet to the deltas of Vietnam, as a gentle passage. A jade-hued bearer of small boats through jungles. But this was before I join Heritage Line in the border town of Huay Xai for a weeklong cruise on the Upper Mekong through the limestone mountains and tribal villages of Laos.

2 months ago | veranda.com | Tracey Minkin

There is no sunrise more mystical than one on India’s Ganges river. It begins with the morning mist, which hangs so low and often so dense it diffuses the rising sun into an otherworldly scrim of mauves, oranges, and yellows. It muffles sounds: As the small villages of West Bengal come to life along its banks and people begin their day’s work—buzzing around on motorbikes, hammering brass, coaxing a reluctant cow—the human sounds disperse around the river like the murmurings of gods.