Armas and Ben Affleck, may be de Armas eating an apple—a distant echo of the iconic food scene in Lyne’s 9 ½ Weeks (1986). Based on Patricia…
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Having written a book about the demise of dating at the hands of tech, I would never have dreamt that I would see the comeback of the singles bar. They…
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It took some time for the cultural conversation to catch up with Mary Gaitskill, who has been exploring the power dynamics inherent in sex since her 1988 debut short…
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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