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Against Redemption

Social media is filled with documentation of human suffering. So why read a tragic novel?

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Brat Girl Summer

Charli xcx brings the club to the world.

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When it Comes to Cookbooks, Who's a Critic?

 A good cookbook can be mind-opening, read for or looked at for pleasure, despite having middling recipes. An excellent one can be a tool and art one in the same.

Carleigh Baker
The Inside is Rotten

As our collective fears shift, so too do the monsters that stand in for them.

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Not Like Us

Unpacking the Kendrick Lamar/Drake beef.

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Impossibly Chaste

On Wim Wenders and Celine Song.

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Beige Foods Forever

They are often stewed foods, sometimes steamed or boiled. They are foods defined by their colours first—in this context, the lack of colour, the overall sameness, somehow gets misread as a fault.