A list of good reads

• BBC Culture has a lovely piece on Alfred Hitchcock’s scream-inducing secrets.
• Faith Hill in The Atlantic (splainer gift link) has a must-read essay on people who quit dating—and why the search for love may be harder than being single.
• Vanessa Thorpe in The Guardian offers a contrarian take on the “wanton vandalism” of Banksy’s art.
• New York magazine (login required) points out a very interesting disconnect between ChatGPT and its users—who either want help with homework and/or are “very horny.”
• Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) offers a useful warning about those zombie accounts—which are hazardous for your online safety.
• Leela Samson pens a wonderful tribute to Yamini Krishnamurthy in The Wire.
• Complex interviews Indian rapper Hanumankind—who is taking the global stage by storm.  
• New Scientist explains why reanimating Alan Turing with AI is deeply disrespectful. 
• The Cut reports on Blake Lively's totally disastrous PR tour for her film ‘It Ends With Us’.
• Giles Tillotson in Scroll looks at how two English artists, a century apart, saw the Taj Mahal.