TheNewsGal, Edition No. 63

What a week! Here's what you missed.

All the things

(Vanity Fair)

• When A Wrinkle in Time author Madeleine L’Engle began exchanging letters with a Black Panther imprisoned for a murder he didn’t commit, neither could have imagined what the relationship would yield. About as neat a story as I’ve read lately. (Abigail Santamaria, Vanity Fair, ~17 min.)

• Reintroducing Sonia Sotomayor: What can the most liberal justice accomplish on the most conservative court in decades? She’s delightful. (Irin Carmon, Intelligencer, ~26 min.)

• The Gilded Age: Gold mined in the jungles of Peru brought riches to three friends in Miami — but it also carried ruin. Stunning from start to finish. (Scott Eden, The Atavist, ~111 min.)

• After the crash, they said I was fine. I wasn’t. Ten years after heli-ski guide Erin Tierney’s helicopter went down, she’s still recovering from debilitating invisible injuries. (Erin Tierney, Outside, ~40 min.)

• A child sex abuser evaded justice in Kenya. Then an “ordinary woman” took matters into her own hands. Wooow. (Max Bearak and Rael Ombuor, Washington Post, ~9 min.)

• The shocking meltdown of Ample Hills — Brooklyn’s hottest ice cream company. Just the saddest story ever for an ice cream lover. (Courtney Rubin, Marker, ~25 min.)

• Tony Bennett’s battle with Alzheimer’s: For four years, the legendary singer and his family have kept his secret. Now, they’re breaking their silence. Somehow, this lifted me up. (John Copapinto, AARP, ~31 min.)

• The vintage furniture sellers of Instagram are burned out: Behind that Cesca chair: broken fingers, nonstop estate sales, and 100-hour work weeks. This world is fascinating. (Daniel Clemens, Curbed, ~21 min.)

• Three American mothers, on the brink: Eleven months, multiple breakdowns, one harrowing realization — they’ve got to get back up and do it all again tomorrow. I can’t stop thinking about this one. (Jessica Bennett, New York Times, ~20 min.)

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If you read one thing this week

(Gillian Laub, The Cut)

• The Nightmare Share: She posted an ad for a roommate. What’s the worst that could happen? I still can’t believe this story is real. (Bridget Read, The Cut, ~29 min.)

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Kirsten