Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains – and souls – need but that it’s easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and recommend just three links every week that you absolutely must see.
No fluff, no fuss, just three exceptional reads. Here are this week’s recommendations:
The Last, Lonely Days of Ivana Trump (Nina Burleigh / Intelligencer)
The pandemic hit Ivana hard. No more red-carpet posing at premieres, one Blahniked foot forward and turned out, catalogue-model style; no more holding court at “her table” at Upper East Side eateries. She was terrified of the coronavirus. She took seriously all the recommended precautions and isolated herself inside her Manhattan townhouse. She had always declined personal security, even after her ex was elected president. She ordered a lot of delivery from restaurants on her block between Fifth and Madison, takeout cacio e pepe or pappardelle pesto.
Call Us When He Kills You (Francine Maroukian / Esquire)
Some of the items I’ve received from the stalker over the years: 20 gift subscriptions to magazines from NBA inside Stuff to Hot Sex Calls; more than 90 invitations to Star Trek conventions; hundreds of assorted catalogs; enrollment in various clubs, from something called Creation to a sci-fi comic-book group; 47 brochures for vocational-training programs; multiple brochures for contraceptive devices; 1 black-and-white elementary-school picture of the stalker; 2 Christmas cards; 4 valentine’s Day cards; dozens of empty envelopes, some marked “From your boyfriend, Clark Kent”; scores of letters and postcards; thousands of voice messages captured on tape; 1 plastic bag full of jagged shards of broken glass hurled into the video store I’d just left.
How I Survived Being Tortured At 13 (Mirsad Solakovic / LADBible)
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