What We Are Watching, Reading, and Listening To This Summer

What We Are Watching, Reading, and Listening To This Summer

From The Run-Through with Vogue by Vogue

July 14, 2026 · 31 min

About this episode

The episode discusses summer culture highlights including books, movies, and sports events.

With the 4th of July in the rearview mirror, we are nearing (or past, depending on how you measure it) the midpoint of summer and for many of us, that means a little extra time to catch up on all the books, movies, and music that is being released this year. To break down the summer culture standouts, Chloe was joined in the studio by Vogue’s Deputy Editor Taylor Antrim and Senior Fashion Writer Hannah Jackson.  The trio began by discussing the major sports moment that seems to be happening even more this summer than ever before. There’s no shortage of sports to watch—the recent Knicks victory, the WNBA season, Wimbledon and the US Open, the World Cup, and the Tour de France. Taylor, who has been following the cycling, is most closely watching Tadej Pogačar (who apparently looks uncannily like his son) and Jonas Vingegaard, whose beautiful love story was covered in our I.W.W.T.H. column.  They then moved onto cinema. Taylor, as the resident horror watcher, shouted out the two big horror films that have stormed the summer box offices: Backrooms and Obsession, both directed by up and comers. Honorable mentions also went out to The Invite, a film they all saw and loved…

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Host: Chloe

Guests: Taylor Antrim, Hannah Jackson

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Organizations: Vogue

Books & works: Backrooms, Obsession, The Invite, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, The Odyssey

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