A list of good reads
- Samanth Subramanian in The Guardian profiles Michael Lewis—the bestselling author who has made his career writing intimate biographies of genius geeks. His latest is ‘Going Infinite’—a behind-the-scenes look at the infamous FTX founder Sam Bankman Friedman. (h/t subscriber Anita Rao Kashi). FYI: the book has not been received well. See: LA Times, Fortune and Washington Post—who are far less kind than Subramanian.
- Quartz reports on a subject that gets very little attention: postpartum depression in men.
- Sanjana Ramachandran in The Whole Truth looks at the dodgy role of food influencers.
- Sam Atis in The Seeds of Science has a fascinating piece on why all placebos are not created equal.
- El País offers excerpts from a previously unpublished interview with legendary author Gabriel García Márquez who talks music, the Caribbean, money, love, books and ideas.
- Wired breaks the bad news: watermarking AI images does not work and is easy to fake. So we still don’t have a solution for deepfakes.
- Priyanka Chakrabarty in Queerbeat pens a lovely essay on asexuality and aromantics.
- BBC News reports on a recently discovered ancient burial site in Gujarat that dates back to the Indus civilisation.
- David Schurman Wallace in The Paris Review offers a beautifully written paean to distraction: “Maybe we are distracted because we are still learning how to live.”
- Maia Mindel asks an intriguing and important question: should you be able to own a colour?
