If the wheel was invented over 5,000 years ago, why wasn’t it applied to luggage until the 1970s? asks Katrine Marçal in this thought-provoking book, seamlessly translated by Alex Fleming. A…
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As life went even more digital during lockdown, the inversion we had been heading towards for over a decade was nearly complete: many of us in the West had gone from a life…
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Affirmative consent, in which permission is to be ascertained for every step of sexual intimacy – either verbally or through non-verbal cues – became the standard on American campuses during
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In a 2008 episode of the US game show Family Feud, contestants were asked to name “something Britney Spears has lost in the past year”. Winning answers — to whooping from…
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into the wild world of dating after divorcing in my thirties, I set out to hack the game in the same way I had tackled other life goals, from getting…
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In She Come By It Natural, the journalist Sarah Smarsh tracks Dolly Parton’s trajectory from being reduced to “the punch line of a boob joke” to “a universally beloved icon”. Now,…