11 of Our Best Weekend Reads
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/arts/11-of-our-best-weekend-reads.html Version 0 of 1. Welcome to the weekend. It was a hard week newswise. So take a breath. Maybe do some yoga or eat some chocolate, visit with a neighbor, call your mom, whatever your thing is. Or have some tea and indulge in some fantastic journalism. Ms. Lakshmi says she understands why a woman would wait years to disclose a sexual assault. Opinion ___ Off the north coast of Scotland, is a trove of things from everyday life before history was written. More than 3,000 archaeological sites have endured for millenniums, scattered across the roughly 70 islands that make up the Orkney archipelago. Today, people are working to save some of these places from the climate changes accelerated by human activity. Climate ___ Portraits of nine families whose lives are tied to Arlington National Cemetery’s Section 60, the final resting place of the loved ones they lost to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Magazine ___ A localized recession in manufacturing-heavy areas explains a lot of things. Upshot ___ Clashes in the German city of Chemnitz drew global attention. But a festival in tiny Leinefelde reflects the quieter inroads being made by the far right. International ___ I went to as many Instagramable “museums,” “factories” and “mansions” as I could. They nearly broke me. Arts ___ After 40-plus years in rock, the singer and guitarist is as fierce and defiant as ever. A new documentary charts her pathbreaking rise. Arts & Leisure ___ For our second annual love issue, we asked four authors to write about the intersection of relationship and place: love from afar in Wales,memory and loss in France, sibling connection in Cuba and a babymoon in Berlin. Travel ___ The third entry in his IQ crime series, “Wrecked,” comes out this month. Books ___ When The Voice folded after more than 60 years, the city lost a contrarian, muckraking spirit that can never be replaced. Here, a few of its greatest hits. New York ___ We sought sanctuary on a silly flotation device at a water park. We found refuge on a sailboat skimming calm waters. We cheered on racecars so loud that we could hardly think. National |