If you read one thing this week, make it Britney’s full conservatorship statement in Variety. Her words, in her own voice
Cara Delevingne (playing a kind of horny Hermione Granger) took Architectural Digest on a tour of her house this week, and there’s Gucci wallpaper and a Chanel surfboard and a see-through piano and a vagina tunnel (!!!!) and a ball pit and we want to live there
Tiny love stories
One of Vanessa’s favourite newsletters is Evil Witches, which is brilliantly described as a newsletter for people who happen to be mothers. We highly recommend you subscribe, and start with this excellent piece on how to talk to kids about fat shaming
We’re extremely here for this oral history of The Devil Wears Prada
Rethinking our OOOs
This is an excellent, thought-provoking piece on the cult of busyness, and how the pandemic might just help us get perspective on the cultural beliefs and status about being “busy” (“When people were asked to read imaginary letters from a friend, one letter described how “crazy busy” a person was, while the other said his life was “relaxed.” The participants thought the busy letter writer to have more money, have better skills, and have a higher social status.”)
The woman who invented no knead bread (and got no credit)
If all those serial killer podcasts are wearing a little thin, may we suggest tuning your ears to something a little less gruesome and a little more frothy? Rom Com Pods deliver a new fiction romcom every season and yes, the stories are cheesy but they’re meant to be, and they make for a great commute binge-listen
They’ve just announced the casting for a film adaptation of the 2017 viral New Yorker story Cat Person (if you haven’t read, highly recommend) and none other than Cousin Greg (the Egg) from Succession is playing Robert. This is going to be gooooood
Utterly joyful, at times heartbreaking: The writer Dana Gachman on helping her 70-year-old dad navigate Tinder (“He told me that scrolling through dating apps was a way to fill the time. Because of the pandemic, he didn’t have dinners with friends or his in-person grief group. He missed our mom, and navigating this brave new world of virtual dating was at least entertaining. He didn’t know if he would fall in love or get married again, but he wouldn’t mind having someone to go to dinner with occasionally.”)
How to love and trust again after a big romantic betrayal
Hate working from home? In The Cut’s latest #AskABoss column, resident workplace advice columnist Alison Green helps a woman who lives alone and is finding wfh life to be pretty isolating
Some vids! This is pure joy. Mini lemonade making us thirsty. MasterChef peanut butter bread 🤯This impression of every mum at a high school pre-drinks really taking us back. Medieval unboxing. Every indie film trailer ever. The boss who thinks she’s fun but she’s not. And not a video but this wins best tweet of the year, hands down
