What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend reading and listening

A detail from the cover of Jaguar II, the new album from Victoria Monét.

This week, Natasha Lyonne offered to solve a crossword puzzle with you, two shows that normally have writers claimed they could wing it, and NSYNC is in a “Better Place.”

Here’s what the NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.

The audiobook of Steph Fry’s Mythos