We catch up on TV shows and books worth watching and reading now that everyone's moved beyond White Lotus and Severance theories.

• 'The Recruit' offers espionage, thrills, and international city envy
• 'Love on the Spectrum' (season 3) provides heartwarming joy
• Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey explores love and survival in Alaska
• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles takes readers on a 1950s roadtrip with recently released juvenile offenders
• Care and Feeding: A Memoir shares Laurie Woolever's experiences as assistant chef to Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali
• The Pitt improves after a rough first episode, showing the chaotic world of emergency medicine

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