A list of good reads

• Esquire looks at why publishers refuse to fact-check non-fiction manuscripts.
• This excellent Medium essay explains our ‘surge capacity’—and why the pandemic has left us depleted.
• How do you talk about virus safety while dating? Slate has six tips.
• India Tomorrow has the sad and overlooked story of a Kashmiri photojournalist, Masrat Zahra, who won an international award—and is being punished by all sides for it.
• If you are an NRI American in India, you probably want to check this guide to voting from abroad.
• Indian Express profiles six volunteers for the vaccine trials in Delhi.
• This Hindu op-ed takes people like us to task for raging against poachers—when the real threat to wildlife is big-ticket development.
• Vice takes us inside the lavish (and secret) pandemic vacations of celebs.