Weekend Reads

“Not so long ago, Manju Das was a millionaire. And not the slumdog kind that’s the stuff of fiction.” From The Nation’s Nilita Vachani: The strange, true story of how a chairman at McKinsey made millions of dollars off his maid.

+ “The Beatles in 1960, they made it big, influencing people all around the world. Ashima also in that manner.” ESPN on one of the most talented climbers in the world: 14 year-old Ashima Shiraishi.

+ The worst relationship between a U.S. president and an Israeli prime minister ever — as autopsied by the people closest to them: Scenes From a Marriage.