Playlist

Book

Sandberg's next

On April 24, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, published a new book, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy.

Sandberg wrote the book with US psychologist Adam Grant, in which she shares the story of her own grief and recovery following the sudden death of her husband while also drawing on research about resilience and people who have overcome hardship and trauma. The book covers topics including grief and loss, hatred and violence, health, illness and injury. Back in 2013, Sandberg published her first book, Lean In, which was referred as an "infantilizing, reactionary guide for ambitious women" by the Guardian.

Tv

Texas man

AMC's Western series The Son, based on the best-selling novel by Philipp Meyer, stars Pierce Brosnan and young Jacob Lofland as Eli McCullough, who is captured in 1849 and raised by Indians, and becomes a powerful and often ruthless patriarch of a wealthy cattle-ranching family in 1915. It is filled with action, violence and some great writing and performances. The show has the novelist's sense of depth and nuance. The story of how young Eli became old Eli is told along parallel lines, which is not usually how TV makes drama. It will take a while to fully understand what turned a young man into a hate-filled, ambitious "first son of Texas", but you'll be willing to wait.

Game

Ratchet & Clank

The 3-D platform-shooter game Ratchet & Clank has tinkered with a lot of elements over the years. The latest version, released on April 12, has a noticeable improvement visually. The newly cut scenes are a nice showpiece for the animated style. It's colorful and vibrant, and the characters' expressions and limbs have an elasticity that looks as if they stepped out of a Chuck Jones cartoon.

As usual, the real meat is the gunplay, with the wide array of weapon options to wreak havoc on the battlefield.

China Daily-Agencies