A list of good reads
- Jiayang Fan pens an incredibly moving essay in the New Yorker about her mother, immigration and living with an incurable disease.
- Another interesting read in the New Yorker: Gideon Lewis-Kraus explores the hasty approval of ALS drug Relyvrio—and the cost of the move.
- Two good reads from BBC News: One, a lovely essay on Gustav Klimt's famous painting ‘Lady with a Fan’. Two, an incredible tale of how MDMA transformed a white supremacist.
- Speaking of paintings, Scroll unearths a Mughal-era painting that features a robot!
- Why is everyone obsessed with the OceanGate submersible tragedy—even more than the sinking of a migrant boat in Europe that claimed many more lives? Jill Filipovic offers uncomfortable answers in her CNN op-ed.
- Bloomberg News explains how Hunter’s Wellington boots—one of the UK's most beloved products—has fallen out of favour due to climate change.
- Wired looks at the most astonishing trademark battle—Apple the company wants exclusive rights for the image of apple, the fruit, in Switzerland. 🤦🏾♀️
- Sharanya Deepak in Longreads explores cooking for one person—and what it means to nourish oneself and others.
- Washington Post reports on a very important beef: which is the longest river in the world? The Nile or The Amazon?
- Variety asks if Wes Anderson has become a victim of his own aesthetic?
- Agence France Presse has an important story on New Zealand’s effort to bring home the remains of its Indigenous people—which were stolen as curiosities.
