MEMORIAL DAY SALE! Plus: A forgotten gonzo '90s thriller with young Denzel, and a good new tick-tock about Twitter

Roundup 05/27/2024

Greetings from Read Max HQ and happy (?) Memorial Day! As is customary from time to time on special occasions, such as three-day weekends and large transfers of cash out of my bank account, Read Max is pleased to offer a special WEEK-LONG SALES EVENT, in this case called THE READ MAX PAY FOR MY SON’S SUMMER CAMP SPECIAL, during which Read Max subscriptions are a whopping 20 percent off. All subscribers will be offered this discount, which ends June 2!

Welcome to our weekly roundup column, in which I pick out some worthwhile and often overlooked books, articles, movies, and music to recommend to paying subscribers. For this week’s round-up, I’ve got:

• A terrific--and terrifically gonzo--early Denzel Washington thriller that’s somehow set in the Die Hard universe;

• a new book about Twitter I really enjoyed; and

• a fantastic new mix and some other tracks I’ve been feeling.

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Now, the roundup. First, as always, a dispatch from the future: