A list of good reads
- Bye bye business class? Bloomberg Businessweek reports on the new trend of airlines ripping up their business class in favour of premium economy seats.
- Time offers a wonderful profile of gorilla-whisperer Jane Goodall ahead of the release of her upcoming book titled ‘The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times’.
- Been watching Netflix’s biggest hit ‘Squid Game’? The Atlantic offers a great analysis of what it says about indebtedness—and not just in terms of money.
- The Conversation tries to answer that age-old masochist’s question: Are cold showers really good for you?
- The rest of the world may have been adopting dogs during the pandemic, but Argentinians made some, umm, unusual choices. Associated Press has a delightful report plus super cute photos.
- This is less one good read than a collection of the same: Longreads rounds up the best essays that speak to the quintessential US immigrant experience: changing your name just to fit in.
- BBC Worklife has an intriguing piece on first impressions and the ‘liking gap’—the difference between how you think people see you and how they actually do.
- Would we cancel Bapu-ji today? Swarna Rajagopalan in Mint says ‘yes’, and explains why that would be a mistake.
- The Guardian’s ‘Great Sperm Heist’ tells the shocking tale of how one doctor stole the sperm of men seeking infertility treatments to impregnate many women.
- Vox has a thought-provoking piece on how social media has turned mental illness into a buzzword or the “BuzzFeedification of mental health.”
- Quartz has a very engaging piece on why the prefix ‘Ever’—as in Evergrande, Ever Given—is so popular as a name for Chinese companies.
- The New York Times takes a self-deprecating and entertaining look at all the bestsellers that were slammed by its critics when they first came out.
- Aeon uses Greek mythology to explain why love isn’t about looking into each other’s eyes—but looking together outwards, and creating a good life.
- Another Manu Pillai treat: this time, an excerpt from his latest book in Open Magazine on the quiet patriotism of the iconic painter Raja Ravi Varma.
