Chinese ink art is having a renaissance at Hong Kong’s M+, where “the complex connections between landscape and humanity” are explored.

The Beach Boys’ experimental — and once-overlooked — 1996 album Pet Sounds, is worth revisiting for its “wistful lyrics of adolescent longing.”

All His Spies, Stephen Alford’s novel about Elizabeth I’s spymaster offers a “subtle, probing, interesting analysis” of how the state was run.

Frederick Forsyth’s debut novel The Day of the Jackal remains a “game-changing thriller, one of the most significant of all time.”

With Mel Brooks set to direct a Spaceballs sequel, revisit the original — a “cheerfully silly” Star Wars parody packed with “great visual gags.”