Introducing Sunday Best Reads: June 1
A weekly link roundup of the most interesting things to read this week
Sunday Best Reads is a regular weekly feature rounding up the things you won’t regret spending time with online. This is the first edition, so it’s a little more expansive. Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Leisure
Karl Ove Knausgaard, the master of belly-button gazing, romanticizes our addiction to our phones as not just an adjustment of our reality, but an improvement on it. He’s moved by holograms of ABBA performing, so you may not agree with his perspective, but it’s a good read anyway.
Welcome back to what made the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s great: Swirling a golden chardonnay in a glass with a self-satisfied smirk. The pinot noir-based propaganda of Sideways has finally been dethroned and white wine is back, Bustle reports. I should mention, however, that drinking alcohol at all is in its flop era.
Dirt has a good read about the rise of Midwestern perfumes with unusual chemical and apocalyp…