A list of good reads
- New York Times (splainer gift link) offers a revelatory look at how Uyghur workers are forcibly moved across China to supply global brands—to get around a US ban on Xinjiang imports.
- Also in New York Times: Do patients without a terminal illness have the right to qualify for medically-assisted dying, under Canada’s new rules?
- Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) asks what trait separates humans from other apes. Hint: it’s not our thumbs.
- The Guardian interviews five workers who lost their jobs to AI. FYI: it’s not the usual tech or finance roles.
- Also in The Guardian: With the launch of a small press dedicated to new male fiction, authors are wondering whether men are really being pushed out of the publishing industry.
- BBC News takes a trip to Clarksdale, Mississippi—a historic hotbed of Delta Blues music, and the town that inspired the new film ‘Sinners’.
- Also from BBC News: how bhangra outfits are getting a makeover, as Punjabi hip-hoppers like Diljit Dosanjh achieve global stardom.
- Financial Times (splainer gift link) analyses why Gen Z in the UK is turning to faith at a higher rate than six years ago.
- The newest tour guides around Old Delhi are… children—tourists can’t get enough of them! The Print has more.
- New York Times is carrying a profile of comedian Zarna Garg—and her love of ‘vampire facials’—following the release of her new memoir.
- BBC News has the deets on a new social media trend that features people crediting cola and fries for helping ‘cure’ their migraines. But there’s a twist.
- The Guardian explores why Fleetwood Mac are still totally ubiquitous, nearly 50 years after ‘Rumours’ dominated the charts.
