Weekend reading: "Empire of dust" edition The forgotten end of the second world war (The Spectator, Francis Pike) Empire of dust: what the tiniest specks reveal about the world (The Guardian, Jay Owens)
Weekend reading: "Shoes" edition A beautiful, broken America: what I learned on a 2,800-mile bus ride from Detroit to LA (Joanna Pocock, The Guardian) Shoes in the Middle Ages (Sandra Alvarez, Medievalists.net) The Wrath of Goodreads (Helen Lewis, The Atlantic)
Weekend reading: "Russian propaganda" edition I Watched Russian Television for Five Days Straight (Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic) How Ukraine’s national dish became a symbol of Putin’s invasion (Anya von Bremzen, The Guardian) "We used to check every day, now it’s every minute": how we got addicted to weather apps (Hannah Marriott, The Guardian)
Weekend reading: "Victoria Amelina" edition Ukraine and the meaning of home (Victoria Amelina, The Guardian) Lessons From the Catastrophic Failure of the Metaverse (Kate Wagner, The Nation) The Romance Scammer on My Sofa (Carlos Barragán, Atavist)
Weekend reading: "Naked Greeks" edition All those naked Greeks… (Sarah Murray, Aeon) AI Is a Lot of Work (Josh Dzieza, The Verge) The unsolved mystery of Europe's oldest language (Tim Brinkhof, Big Think)