Eat pasta with 50 cloves of garlic in it. You read that right. This marinara pasta recipe from cooking content creator Reid Quiggins uses a sauce with 50 cloves in it to create maximum flavour. If you’re an allium-head, it’s a treat. If you’re a vampire, a death sentence.
Read Flesh by David Szalay, the winner of this year’s Booker Prize. Szalay, who was born in Montréal, bagged what is perhaps the most prestigious award for English language fiction with a radically sparse, yet compelling, novel about a Hungarian immigrant’s life in London.
Watch The Beast In Me on Netflix. Starring Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys, two titans of prestige TV, this new limited series is a twisty psychological thriller about a grieving bestselling author trying to figure out if her real estate mogul neighbour is a murderer.
Listen to some Neil Young. The Canadian music icon turned 80 earlier this week, and while Young ain’t so young anymore, his best tunes haven’t aged a day. In honour of this milestone, Stereogum asked 80 famous musicians to pick their favourite songs of his.—QH