Longform links: a bygone era
Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. Wherever possible, free links for premium sites are used. You can check out...
Books
- An excerpt from "Everything is Tuberculosis" by John Green. (theatlantic.com)
- A Q&A with Eunji Kim author of "The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy." (niemanlab.org)
- An excerpt from Sophie Gilbert’s new book, "Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves." (theatlantic.com)
- An excerpt from "Flight of the Godwit: Tracking Epic Shorebird Migrations" by Bruce M. Beehler. (smithsonianmag.com)
Longreads
- The REIT industry needs to consolidate. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- America needs more housing, sprawl or no sprawl. (nytimes.com)
- On the growth in consumer debt in India's middle class. (on.ft.com)
- The future of AI is proprietary data. (pivotal.substack.com)
- The administration is planning to suspend a whole slew of regulations. (nytimes.com)
- Why was DOGE rifling through the NLRB's data? (npr.org)
- Managing Elon Musk's sprawling personal life is a full time job. (wsj.com)
- What the longevity movement ignores. (codastory.com)
- Bees are still in trouble. (nytimes.com)
