This is Rock Paper Shotgun's weekly "Sunday Papers" round-up, a curated list of non-gaming reading recommended by the site's editors as a break from a week the author describes as dispiriting for the games industry. The piece frames itself as a deliberate escape, pointing readers towards articles on food, football politics and ancient history rather than games news.

The recommended reads include a Taste magazine piece by Linni Kral reflecting on digestion and the joy of eating, an Eater article by Bettina Makalintal on restaurants rejecting AI-generated menus and marketing imagery, a Mother Jones investigation by Tim Murphy into a rejected FIFA proposal that would have restructured the organisation and potentially handed president Gianni Infantino a lucrative new role paying around $60 million a year, and a piece by Nathan Goldwag exploring whether the myth of Odysseus reflects the real Bronze Age Collapse, tied to Christopher Nolan's forthcoming Odyssey film. An architecture piece by Rachel Freundt is also mentioned before the excerpt ends.