11 of Our Best Weekend Reads
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/arts/11-of-our-best-weekend-reads.html Version 0 of 1. Welcome to the weekend. It’s the one where we honor the best in TV, with the Emmys. It’s also the last one of summer for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. No matter what you’re doing, carve out some time to read these great stories. Malfunctions caused two deadly crashes. But an industry that puts unprepared pilots in the cockpit is just as guilty. ____ Flames engulfed 460 tons of lead when Notre-Dame’s roof and spire burned, scattering dangerous dust onto the streets and parks of Paris. [“What We Found About Notre-Dame’s Lead, and What It May Mean for You”] ____ Getting sufficient DNA out of a rootless hair has long been considered impossible. A scientist, better known for work with ancient fossils, has figured it out. It’s a game-changer for crime and surveillance. ____ After nearly nine months in office, the progressive firebrand has swapped the combative brand of politics that swept her into Washington for a more careful political calculus. ____ How we love and hate to go to work. ____ The writer’s first novel, “The Water Dancer,” about a 19th-century man who has the ability to vanish from one place and appear in another, has echoes of work by Gabriel García Márquez, Colson Whitehead and Stephen King. ____ Greenland crowns its national champion in the shortest season on earth, a year’s worth of matches, injuries, controversies and celebrations crammed into a single week. ____ This is not your typical gadget review. That’s because it is time to rethink when to upgrade your iPhone. ____ The Hunters Point Community Library is one of the finest public buildings New York has produced this century, says our architecture critic, Michael Kimmelman. But it cost more than $40 million, took a decade and almost died. ____ “The power of ‘no’ is one thing I’ve learned,” the actress says. ____ Join New Yorkers from Brooklyn to the Bronx as they dance, eat and play in the streets. |