A list of good reads
- David Sedaris has a wonderful essay in the New Yorker on 30 years of loving and living together.
- The Atlantic looks at ‘familect’—the coded language we’ve all developed while staying home with the fam during the pandemic.
- Stuti Johri in Hindustan Times pens an inspiring profile of Indrani Dahal—a biker determined to ride solo across India.
- Mint Lounge looks at the new trend of buying (and owning) fractions of very expensive cars, art, or even sneakers.
- BuzzFeed News examines how the pandemic has affected introverts.
- Who is a ‘real’ Goan? The Hindu looks at a question that has gained fierce urgency in the midst of the second wave.
- If you have a weakness for bloodthirsty queens of yore, LongReads has an excellent piece on Boudicca: “a bloodthirsty barbarian, devoted to a ghoulish religion, out to destroy the social order of the known world.”
- BBC News spotlights ‘Woman In The Window’—once a highly touted project based on a bestselling novel with A-list attachments. So how did it end up as yet one of the most ‘cursed’ Hollywood films?
- Inside Hook takes you inside a sex party at a dungeon in… Wisconsin? Needless to say, the content isn’t exactly suitable for work.
- Racked contemplates the weird afterlife of post-breakup objects—like that t-shirt you never gave back.
- Remember that famous Cars music video starring supermodel Paulina Porizkova—who went on to marry lead singer Ric Ocasek? New York Times reports on the fascinating return of Porizkova to the limelight: she’s been cut out of Ocasek’s will after a thirty-year marriage and is dating… Aaron Sorkin?
