When you land in a new destination, what should you read?

When you land in a new destination, what should you read? It's hard to find good material with search engines because the space is SEO'd so aggressively. A Wikipedia article is fine insofar as it goes, but inevitably misses much of the texture of a place. I think it'd be neat if there was some kind of service that collated great travel writing -- especially pieces that capture something of the context of a place. (See the Davies post below.) To this end, I made guide.world.