1 week Ago
IT’S A DAY of rest, and you may be in the mood for a quiet corner and a comfy chair. We’ve hand-picked some of the week’s best reads for you to savour. When nine paintings vanished from a Massachusetts mansion in 1978, the police investigation went nowhere for 43 years, until an amateur sleuth was put on the case.
( , approx 40 mins reading time) An excellent read by Shaun Walker about the mystery surrounding Pablo González, a Spanish journalist accused of being a spy for Moscow. ( , approx 30 mins reading time) While the country has long been thought of as a tidy, minimalistic haven, the real Japan is cluttered. Matt Alt explores its love of curated, magical mess.
( , approx 25 mins reading time) Dating apps appear to be on the decline, but the companies are coming up with new ideas to keep people swiping – the ‘new ideas’ being holding in-person events so people can meet face-to-face. Magdalene Taylor went along to one to see what it was like. ( , approx 11 mins reading time) An essay on how our homes shape us.
( , approx 25 mins reading time) 40 years after it was released, did The Terminator get anything right about machine intelligence? ( , approx 9 mins reading time) Gideon Lewis-Kraus explores how and why the US government started taking UFOs seriously. ( , approx 59 mins reading time).
