A list of good reads
- New York Times (splainer gift link) reports on Gabriel García Márquez’s last novel—which he wanted to destroy—and the politics of publishing novels after an author’s death.
- Asia Nikkei looks at the rise of greener manufacturing in Sri Lanka—to make its garment industry more competitive.
- Johanna Deeksha in Scroll reports on the awful ways iPhone factories in India exert control over its women workers.
- Ben Crair in the New Yorker has an essay on the fascinating and often overlooked intelligence of birds.
- This one’s for language nerds: Merriam-Webster features a collection of uncommon but beautiful words in English.
- HEATED has a thought-provoking look at recycling—which is not making any meaningful difference to plastic pollution—but plastic companies still push for it to ensure consumption does not go down.
- Dominikus Baur and Alice Thudt conducted a large-scale analysis of title drops—“when a character in a movie says the title of the movie they're in”—in 73,921 movies.
- Real Simple offers a refreshingly practical guide to getting better sleep, ditching the tired advice of strict bedtimes and screen bans.
- Arthur C Brooks in The Atlantic underscores the importance of saying no when one is feeling overwhelmed and distracted.
- Al Jazeera has a lovely feature on a Manipuri home kitchen in Delhi that is run by three women.
