A list of good reads
- Reuters reports on how diplomatic frustrations with Western allies and the alarming conditions in Gaza forced Emmanuel Macron to ‘go it alone’ on recognising a Palestinian state.
- The Atlantic (splainer gift link) asks whether the rise of AI slop may finally cure our internet addiction.
- Also in The Atlantic: Honor Jones jets off to Greece’s Corfu in order to map out her favourite John le Carre novel, ‘A Perfect Spy’.
- Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) investigates how to extract $400 million from a billionaire. Hint: use a gilded age family name.
- New York Times (splainer gift link) has an interactive tribute to prolific reader Dan Pelzer, whose list of 3,599 books went viral following his death.
- Washington Post (splainer gift link) profiles the women of a certain age who are finding themselves with fashion icon Phoebe Philo’s latest collection.
- Scroll breaks down how NYC-based comedian Alaudin Ullah’s research about his father uncovered a long-lost desi immigration tale of Bengali Harlem.
- Vandana Menon in India’s World offers a history lesson on how the Malabar town of Ottapalam shaped a newly independent India’s foreign policy and internal security.
- The Telegraph laments the once-popular genres of Hindi cinema that lost their edge in modern times—the naagin, the dacoit, the lost-and-found, and the reincarnated.
- Todd Pezzuti in The Conversation introduces a recent study he co-authored on what makes a person cool.
- In order to identify the largest shapes in the universe, Aeon draws attention to the most unassuming places on Earth.
