Media Diet: January and February 2026

A quick look at the movies, television shows, music, and books that have captured my attention over the past two months. Flashlight , Susan Choi This is a big novel—large in its geographic and chronologic expanse—that isn’t shy to grapple with big issues. Whether it is navigating geopolitics, or the machinations of grief, or the impacts of absence, Choi isn’t afraid to take big swings in the plot,…