Summer special: Recommended reading, listening and viewing

<p>We have all the recommendations you need for reading, listening and viewing to make the most of your summer holiday — courtesy of the POLITICO podcast crew, special guests and our listeners.</p><p>This extended episode of EU Confidential features entertaining, as well as enlightening, recommendations from POLITICO's Andrew Gray, Rym Momtaz and Matthew Karnitschnig. Our executive producer Cristina Gonzalez brings us listener recommendations, and we also hear from some of our special guests over the past months.</p><p>Here's the full list of tips:</p><p><strong>Reading</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/going-dark-9781526616784/">"Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists"</a> by Julia Ebner (as recommended by Rym)</p><p><i>(Bonus track: Julia Ebner was a guest on EU Confidential in 2018. Listen to the episode, with former host Ryan Heath, </i><a href="https://www.politico.eu/podcast/eu-confidential-episode-62-presented-by-qualcomm-inside-europes-far-right-networks-kosovo-and-serbia-border-drama/"><i>here</i></a><i>.)</i></p><p><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/dark-towers-david-enrich?variant=32126598381602">"Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction"</a> by David Enrich (as recommended by Matt)</p><p><a href="https://pushkinpress.com/books/summer-before-the-dark/">"Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936"</a> by Volker Weidermann (as recommended by Andrew)</p><p><a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520203549/disenchanted-night">"Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century"</a> by Wolfgang Schivelbusch (as recommended by EU Confidential listener Jed)</p><p><a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Code-Breaker/Walter-Isaacson/9781982115852">"The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race"</a> by Walter Isaacson (as recommended by Javier Solana and a listener)</p><p><a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-lonely-century/noreen