A list of good reads
- The Print reports on the rise of old-fashioned mixers due to dating app fatigue.
- Daily Beast has a juicy read on the heir to Thailand’s throne—who is secretly married to an American woman—and could lose his claim to the crown.
- Speaking of royal dramas, Vox explains why the internet is losing it over Kate Middleton’s alleged disappearance—which has spawned some wild conspiracy theories.
- Also in Vox: Allie Volpe has a helpful guide on what most people dread and are terrible at—the art of small talk.
- Tarana Husain Khan in Mint Lounge writes about the long-lost dish Rampuri shabdeg— a meat and turnip stew with origins in Persian cuisine—from Uttar Pradesh.
- Scroll looks at the bizarre government order that married women have to obtain an NOC from their husbands if they wish to legally change their surnames back to their maiden names.
- Mark Harris in New York Times (splainer gift link) lays out why Hollywood is in deep trouble—despite the Barbenheimer phenomenon last year.
- Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) has a feature on the bizarre rise of stay-at-home girlfriend influencers on social media.
- John McDermott in The Guardian pens a deeply investigated report on the iffy origins of celeb self help guru Jay Shetty.
- Yasmin Tayag in The Atlantic (splainer gift link) debunks the recent obsession with ‘gut-health’—and the trend of blaming everything from depression to cancer on bad biomes.
