Get peppy! Move your rump! The new album from The Chemical Brothers, For That Beautiful Feeling, includes a tasty track called “No Reason.” Why I am recommending it? No reason. Except that it cooks!

If you’re looking for an engrossing true crime book, I just finished Mark O’Connell’s A Thread of Violence, an account of one of the most shocking and brutal chapters in modern Irish history (circa 1982) involving Malcolm Macarthur, a well-known Dublin socialite and heir. It’s a haunting read. (From the jacket: “At once a propulsive work of true crime and an act of literary subversion.”)

Over the years, I’ve had an inconsistent habit of doing headstands (with a pillow and a wall for support) because I like how it feels when the blood rushes to my noggin. Just recently, I thought, should I be doing this more? Or maybe not at all? Heidi Volpe said “more” in 2018. Most people before and since have agreed.

In case you’ve been wondering what is and is not a “vibe,” Laura Lane clarifies.

Millie Bobby Brown, the British actress known for playing Eleven on Stranger Things, just published a novel called Nineteen Steps, based on the Bethnal Green tube station disaster in March of 1943. “You might open Nineteen Steps for the celebrity name,” said reviewer Jessica Francis Kane, “but stick with it for the history of an under-recognized event of World War II, a disaster still not satisfactorily resolved for many.”

It’s always cool to know a good card trick. So here’s a good one.