What It’s Like to Grow Up With More Money Than You’ll Ever Spend
This week's best reads from Gentle Reader
What would your life be like if you’d grown up with more money than you can imagine? In this week’s best gentle reads, Abigail Disney offers a rare glimpse into the psyche of someone with unimaginable wealth. Plus, the tale of a British journalist who fell in love with a serial killer, why Churchill hated Gandhi and more…
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The week’s best gentle reads
What It’s Like to Grow Up With More Money Than You’ll Ever Spend
Sarah McVeigh, The Cut
Abigail Disney talks frankly about the paradoxes of growing up in tremendous wealth, giving away $70m of her fortune and carving out her own identity.
Churchill, the Greatest Briton, Hated Gandhi, the Greatest Indian
Ramachandra Guha, The Atlantic
Exactly a century ago, Mahatma Gandhi began his first all-India movement against British colonial rule. Winston Churchill was, and continued to be, unimpressed by those efforts.
What Documenting Women Clutching Their Purses Taught Me About Racism
Vincent Dixon
“I spent a year counting the times I experienced this age-old type of racial profiling.”
Medieval people were surprisingly clean (apart from the clergy)
Katherine Harvey, Finovate
People in the Middle Ages took great care over cleanliness – except the clergy, who accepted filth as a sign of devotion.
Sandy Fawkes: The Reporter and The Serial Killer
Sarah Weinman, CrimeReads
In 1974, a British journalist met a stranger at a hotel bar and agreed to a road trip. She wanted to see America.
A Reader’s Guide to Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
Tim Parks, New York Review of Books
Could it be that trains and buses and ships and planes have actually increased the amount of writing that gets done?
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