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Friday Fourteen
Every month, we send out fourteen good things to read, cook, look at and listen to. Subscribe to receive it in your inbox monthly, or dig into the archives below.
Friday Fourteen Issue 48
This week: A love letter to the art of running late, how to be eco-friendly during a pandemic, food podcasts to listen to while you’re chopping, kneading and stirring, an anti-racism newsletter, Trump interviewing Trump, an extraordinary essay that asks, ‘is it okay to have a child?’, and more.
Friday Fourteen Issue 47
This week: The story behind every song on Taylor Swift’s album Folklore, a new weekly quiz that sends 25 questions to your mobile every Saturday, how flexible work (the utopia!!) has turned from a feminist ideal to a trap, an evocative piece in the Guardian about how Melbourne winters are meant to be shared, not spent in isolation… and more.
Friday Fourteen Issue 46
This week: What it means to insist people pronounce your name correctly, an essay that absolutely ANNIHILATES millennials, a long Twitter thread of quick-cheap-can’t-be-fucked meals, a killer piece by Samantha Irby on her summer working in a writers’ room in LA with zero experience working on a television show and more.
Friday Fourteen Issue 45
This week: ‘I May Destroy You’ creator Michaela Coel on how she turned her trauma into a cultural triumph, the phenomenon of the ‘busy boy’, why the concept of time feels so strange right now, an incredible piece by Yanyuwa Garrw woman Miriam Charlie on living through two pandemics, a website that lets you look through other people’s windows all over the world, and more.
Friday Fourteen Issue 44
This week: Melburnians get honest about lockdown v2, your (deliciously chaotic) monthly horoscope, thoughts on ambition and where it goes when what you were striving towards ceases to exist, the art of the care package, incredibly useful advice on hiring a diverse staff, and more.
Friday Fourteen Issue 43
This week: What it’s like to rebuild your life after seven years in prison gap, 10 ways to pimp up your toast, a podcast about a high school class election that also manages to be about everything that’s wrong with America, a lesson in correct ramen noodle construction, and more.
Friday Fourteen Issue 42
This week: Six renowned writers share stories of memorable restaurant meals, your perfect glass of wine according to your star sign, a recipe for cauliflower soup that has us half intrigued/half disgusted, an exquisite essay on single parenthood, HAIM’s new album, and more.
Friday Fourteen Issue 41
This week: Advice for confused white men, a sorely overdue list of ways we can support First Nations Peoples’ food culture, two writers debate shoes in the house vs no shoes in the house, a viral Lizzo video, a meaty interview with the cast of Succession, and more.
Friday Fourteen Issue 40
This week: Learning to feel joy as deeply as we feel grief, a genius Chrome extension that tells you which brands align to your ethics, a passionate seven minute video that does a better job of summing up the deadly history of white supremacy in America than anything else we’ve seen, how to really listen (resist the urge to make it about you), portraits of postal workers, and more.
Friday Fourteen Issue 39
This week: Independent Aboriginal-rights journalist Amy McQuire on why Australians must bear witness to black deaths in our own country, a podcast about how the media shapes stories about power, how to navigate anti-racism conversations with white family members, five series on Netflix to educate yourself on black oppression, and more.
Friday Fourteen Issue 38
This week: How the pandemic has changed people’s relationships, lockdown playlists from the likes of Natasha Khan, Haim and Mike Skinner, the incredible story of a woman who travelled to Greece for solo IVF at the start of the pandemic, new fiction from JK Rowling, an epic squirrel obstacle course, and more.
Friday Fourteen Issue 37
This week: How insanity can you keep you sane, Stanley Tucci’s utterly charming quarantine diary, people around the world share the last normal photo on their phone, what all that Irish slang in ‘Normal People’ actually meant, who you’re most (and least) compatible with during a crisis according to your star sign, and more.
Friday Fourteen Issue 36
This week: Dance classes with Haim, a love letter to the telephone, mundane celebrity encounters, thrifty tinned fish recipes, 68 pieces of unsolicited advice from a 68-year-old, an extremely chaotic interview with Robert Pattison that involves a new pasta invention, and more.
Friday Fourteen Issue 35
This week: Everything you ever wanted to know about getting married online, nannies spill the dirt on working during the pandemic, a mammoth list of free online exercise classes, wealth shown to scale, a podcast rec about a fertility doctor in Rotterdam who used his own sperm to inseminate his patients without their knowledge, and more.
Friday Fourteen Issue 34
This week: The grief of cancelling plans, the brilliant Anne Helen Petersen on what makes ‘Normal People’ so goddamn watchable, a genius Twitter account that roasts bad Skype and Zoom backgrounds, one-pot recipes for when you CBF doing the dishes, weird things we do to make ourselves feel better, and more.
Friday Fourteen Issue 33
This week: Watch Stanley Tucci break every negroni rule in the book, stories of people having babies in the pandemic, a Spotify playlist jam-packed with desert island dancing BANGERS, a meditative piece on the art of mastering the French omelette (could this be the next quarantine cooking challenge?), some brilliant solutions for ending phone calls now that we have nowhere to go, and more.
Friday Fourteen Issue 32
This week: Sage advice on how to deal with not having a partner in the pandemic, a long list of free online games perfect for your next Zoom gathering, TV shows for armchair travellers, an essay about what women are having to sacrifice right now, Instagram impressions that make delightful time-wasters, and more.
Friday Fourteen Issue 31
This week: The ideal COVID-19 woman, an incredible essay on relationships and ambition, the best food-related shows on Netflix right now, watch Phoebe Waller-Bridge in the West End production of Fleabag for a good cause, distraction tactics that involve Keanu Reeves and Adam Driver, and more.
Friday Fourteen Issue 30
This week: See ordinary people recreate famous works of art, listen to Dolly Parton read you a bedtime story, download some free Audible books, tune into Samin Nosrat’s new home cooking podcast, read a harrowing account of what it’s like to care for someone with coronavirus, and more.
Friday Fourteen Issue 29
This week: A magic cake made with no butter, eggs or milk, stories of people still swiping on dating apps, good questions to ask yourself when everything feels awful, tips on how to stay sane in isolation from a man who spent a year in space, the first lines of classic novels rewritten for social distancing, and more.