February Staff Picks

Every month, the Sunstroke Magazine team compiles a list of things — new and old — that we’ve been enjoying. Here’s to finding more things to love.

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Artwork by Lucy Nguyen Pham

Albums

• Born This Way (The 10th Anniversary), Lady Gaga

• SOUL LADY, Yukika

• The Overload, Yard Act

• Ants From Up There, Black Country, New Road

• Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night, Bleachers

• SICK!, Earl Sweatshirt

• Laurel Hell, Mitski

Musicians & Bands

• Wallice

• Annie Di Russo

• Black Country, New Road

• Christelle Bofale

• Wolf Alice

Films

• Shiva Baby (2020), dir. Emma Seligman

• The Fallout (2022), dir. Megan Park

• Scream (2022), dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett

• Drive My Car (2021), dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Books

• Little Weirds by Jenny Slate

• Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

• Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

• The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

• Witchcraft. the Library of Esoterica by Jessica Hundley

Articles, Essays & Journals

• Capitalism is Dangerous for Your Mental Health by Jimmy Wu

• Hanya’s Boys by Andrea Long Chu

• Heidi, Girl of the Alps by Animétudes and Toadette

• Bell Hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh on Building a Community of Love

• The Ecological Imagination of Hayao Miyazaki by Isaac Yuen