A list of good reads
- Washington Post (splainer gift link) has an eye-opening report on the extent of the Assad regime’s repression, as revealed by files retrieved from an intelligence facility in Aleppo.
- New York Times (splainer gift link) traces the rise and fall of a New York City’s neighbourhood’s once iconic ‘Little India’ restaurant corner.
- Also in New York Times (login required): how 120 miles of dense Russian forest couldn’t keep apart two Siberian tigers, who were raised together as orphaned cubs and reintroduced into the wild separately.
- Scroll looks at how the Carnatic music world is celebrating vocalist MD Ramanathan in light of his passing, after ridiculing him when he was alive.
- BBC News traces how the ultra-traditional tweed fabric has found a new fanbase—from the Princess of Wales to Gigi Hadid.
- Also in BBC News: how the melting of alpine glaciers due to climate change is redrawing borders across Europe—such as in Austria and Italy.
- Christian Jarrett in BBC Science Focus lays out everything we’re getting wrong about infidelity—there’s many ways to be unfaithful to your partner.
- As part of its ‘Read the Screenplay’ series, Deadline brings us the complete script of Payal Kapadia’s Cannes Grand Prix winner ‘All We Imagine as Light’.
- The Atlantic (splainer gift link) peers at the ‘wellness women’ behind Robert F Kennedy Jr.’s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ (MAHA) movement—featuring a legion of Instagram influencers with millions of followers.
- Bloomberg Businessweek has an interactive story tracking the extraction and exploitation of the global trade of human eggs—featuring reportage from Buenos Aires to Varanasi.
