A list of good reads
- Amid a museum-building renaissance in India, The Hindu asks what stories are being told in these institutions, and who gets to tell them.
- Vulture (login required) reports on Hollywood bigwigs’ growing fears that director Ryan Coogler’s landmark deal—for his new film ‘Sinners’—could spell the end of the status quo studio system.
- Wired (login required) has an interview with structural biologist and Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan—who reveals that death is ‘not programmed by our genes’.
- Vox (login required) identifies the latest flavour of incels—who think that Trump’s tariffs will get them girlfriends.
- New York Times (splainer gift link) has an interactive read on modern migration’s ‘true global sweep’—mapped by Meta’s location data.
- Also in New York Times: Katie vs Katy—an Aussie designer takes on the pop star in a name war that could shake up trademark law.
- Morning Brew identifies the ‘recession blonde’ and other unconventional ways in which women are signaling an economic downturn.
- Financial Times (splainer gift link) has a detailed takedown of AI ‘slop world’—how the hostile internet is driving us crazy.
- BBC News looks at how the Indian pot belly—once a sign of wealth and indulgence—is now raising alarm bells as a silent health crisis.
- Also in BBC News: how a British scientist—and some humble Welsh seaweed—helped make sushi what it is today.
- Aeon offers a history lesson on Vietnam’s potent and storied anticolonialism—founded on a unique sense of national shame.
- Milan Turlunen in Public Books argues that literary scholars have failed the literature fan by devaluing one of the most popular forms of reading—for the plot!
- NewsLaundry visits Delhi’s ‘satyagraha for men’—where men's rights activists complained about ‘biased’ laws favouring ‘foreign-funded feminists’.
