I’ve got a real backlog of magazines on my end table, and yet I just can’t stop reading. Here are 12 things I read and loved (or at least couldn’t stop thinking about) this past month. (See the previous things I’ve read here.)
- Germany’s Racist Present (Quartz) — despite a dedication to preventing another Holocaust, Germany has a blind spot when it comes to racism
- Social Media Complaints of 1673 (Tom Standage) — Twitter is to 2013 as coffee houses are to 1673
- The Busy Trap (NYTimes Opinionator) — life is too short to always be busy
- Concierge Medicine (Bloomberg Businessweek) — with America already having a shortage of primary care physicians, the trend of concierge doctors is really troubling
- Askers vs. Guessers (The Atlantic Wire) — this theory on interpersonal relations explains so much about my life!
- A Guide to Internet Hoaxes (Longform) — Manti Te’o wasn’t the first guy to fall for something on the internet
- 5 Etsy Sellers who are Clearly Serial Killers (Cracked) — so hilarious and terrifying
- RIP, Regretsy (Regretsy) — pour one out
- Left by Nikky Finney — a poem we read with the kids I tutor that’s stuck with me for days
- A Biden Moment (NYTimes) — related: Biden scores like 800 feet of copper wire
- Elizabeth Wurtzel on self-help (New York) — this very personal essay is polarizing but a fascinating read
- Lena Dunham’s admirable commitment to making us look at her naked (XOJane) — a Girls marathon is imminent
grace dobush 