Team Favorites: January & February 2023

Illustration by Grace Comia

At Humankind Zine, our team loves to curate a collection of our top picks each month. Though we were on hiatus during January and February, we're excited to share our favorites from that time. Our list includes a mix of new and old media, ranging from XG's latest release "Shooting Star" to the classic TV show The X-Files from 1993. Keep reading to discover more of our recommendations.


To Read

  • Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

  • Caraval by Stephanie Garber

  • Circe by Madeline Miller

  • Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

  • Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

  • How to Bite Your Neighbor & Win a Wager by D.N. Bryn

  • If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang

  • Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

  • Running With Lions by Julian Winters

  • The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

  • The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield

  • The Pen, the Throat, the Ear by Sarah Ghazal Ali

  • The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

  • This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin

  • You’ve Reached Sam by Dustin Thao

To Watch

YouTube

Shows

  • The X-Files (1993)

  • Final Destination 3 (2006)

  • Inside Job (2021)

  • Only Murders in the Building - Season Two (2022)

  • Kaleidoscope (2023)

  • The Last of Us (2023)

  • Lockwood & Co. (2023)

Movies

  • The Shawshank Redemption (1994), dir. Frank Darabont

  • The Menu (2021), dir. Mark Mylod

  • Don’t Look Up (2021), dir. Adam McKay

  • Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022), dir. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

  • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022), dir. Joe Crawford

To Listen

Podcast

  • “You Are Good” hosted by Sarah Marshall and Alex Steed

Songs

  • "A New England" by Billy Bragg

    "Blood" by The Middle East

    "Carlo's Song" by Noah Kahanto

    "Carnivore" by Bear Attack!

    "CHRONICALLY CAUTIOUS" by Braden Bales

    "Deadweight" by Beach Bunny

    "Don't Go Dark" by Dreamers and Irontom

    "Dreamland" by Fox Stevenson

    "From Hell With Love" by Ryan Caraveo

    "I Think I Like When It Rains" by WILLIS

    "Kill Bill" by SZA

    "Muzzle" by Destroy Boys

    "riseatsunset" by Krishna Canning

    "Shooting Star" by XG

    "Vanished World" by Oi Va Voi

Albums

  • Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

  • Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, Caroline Polachek

  • I Love You Jennifer B, by Jockstrap

  • The Loneliest Time, Carly Rae Jepsen

  • Welcome Interstate Managers, Fountains of Wayne

Previous
Previous

Offline: Off the Record with Blonde Vibrations

Next
Next

Team Favorites: September & October 2022