News Summary

• Luis Parrales is a new fan of the author Mario Vargas Llosa and a longtime listener of the singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler.
• His other recommendations include “Femininomenon,” by Chappell Roan; The Bear; and anything by Conan O’Brien.
• The last thing that made me cry: A few weeks before Independence Day, while visiting New York City, I ended up going to mass at the Church of the Ascension.