This week: Dolly Alderton on what it’s like to be a single during the pandemic, a cryptic Taylor Swift puzzle that signals that a new album is about to drop, the rise of fake vaccine cards 🥴, an excellent Twitter thread of ideas for presents to give to yourself, a love letter to the chaos of having a bazillion Chrome tabs open at once, a lols (but too real) skit about handling the PM, and more.

This week: A journalist in lockdown ranks his most hated Thomas the Tank Engine trains (trust us on this one), how TikTok knows the exact thing you want to watch before you even know you want to watch it, Nora Ephron’s rules for middle age happiness are a goddamn tonic, actually helpful long lockdown advice from a Melburnian who gets it, what book you should read according to your fav ice cream 🍦 and more.

This week: A new short story from Curtis Sittenfeld, Roxane Gay on trying to develop a different relationship to food, the rise of no-recipe recipes, the seedy underbelly of a Hollywood photoshoot, how tinned fish became hot girl food, chaotic Covid rules in Singapore, and more.

This week: A fascinating deep dive into why we develop intense one-sided relationships with famous people on the internet, the best memes of 2021 (so far) explained, why it’s time to free the boob (amen), how the photo dump took over Instagram, the psychology behind why we’re obsessed with ugly shoes, a Jason Sudeikis profile in GQ that will send you swooning, and more.

This week: A little link love for all our overthinkers out there ️❤️, what it actually costs to compete on RuPaul’s Drag Race? (spoiler: a lot), a sizeable extract from Sally Rooney’s new novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You, a fairly chaotic collection of newsletter writers recommending other newsletters (we’re guessing our invitation to contribute got lost in the mail), the Succession season 3 trailer, proverbs for your 30s, and more.

This week: Jessica Simpson’s response to the great tuna sandwich mystery, a sobering thread of things most people don’t realise is a privilege, Stanley Tucci’s road trip eggplant parmigiana recipe that sent us swooning, a fascinating deep dive into how companies big and small are navigating the whole WFH thing as the world inches its way out of the pandemic, retail rage videos from our new favourite internet comedian, and more.

This week: A bonkers tour of Cara Delevingne’s Willy Wonka-style LA home (complete with vagina tunnel), an oral history of The Devil Wears Prada that took us back to the noughties, a thought-provoking piece on the cult of busyness, how to love and trust again after a big romantic betrayal, why you might need to consider a better OOO message, and more.

This week: A love letter to the errand friend date, sage advice for when you don't want to seem cheap but you also don't want to keep paying for other people's drinks, stories of pandemic reunions that made us have quiet little sobs at our desks, what happened in Bali when the tourism (and money) stopped flowing according to people living there, and more.

This week: What it's like for young Australians turning 18 in the pandemic, a mesmerising photo essay in the New Yorker featuring women who've chosen to go grey, an emosh Friday playlist, women who dumped their partners because Reddit told them to, good news from Coles, Tiktoks to aid you in wasting time, and more.

This week: Being interested vs interesting, a startlingly honest essay on being a twin, a collection of tried-and-tested baking recipes from Guardian readers, a WILD story about white women in American attending anti-racism parties so they can bring submerged racial judgments, a LOL parody of Guy Pearce’s agent pitching him his Mare of Easttown character, and more.

This week: a Modern Love essay that broke us into a tiny million pieces, how to take the perfect nap, signs that you may be a geriatric millennial, ideas for supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and businesses while on hols, Guardian readers share their thoughts on what the terms 'working class' and 'middle class' actually mean, and more.

This week: A countdown of Eurovision’s best weird moments, a very solid argument against inbox infinity, apparently frozen sweet potatoes taste like ice cream bars, an investigative piece on who actually invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos that’s surprisingly spicy, the always wonderful Roxane Gay on bodies doing impossible things, and more.

This week: How ageism cuts in both directions, a mother writes honestly about her obsession with child-free women, unsolicited advice, an app that sends you reminders that you’re going to die, everything you need to know about Bennifer v2, things that we really should have evolved by now as a species, a very cool site to help you get out of your geographic music bubble, and more.

This week: A parenthood clarity therapist (apparently that’s a thing) explains how she helps people decide if they want kids, serial killers and their star signs (ahem, Geminis and Virgos), an evocative piece by the Melbourne writer Anna Spargo Ryan about being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and more.

This week: An ode to the Fillet-O-Fish, how the user interface of computers has evolved over the past 40 years, post-pandemic New Yorker covers, new trailer galore (West! Side! Story!), interior porn, actual porn, what it’s like to grow up with more money than you’ll ever spend, the history of the work spouse, and more.

This week: Two profiles on the inimitable Nigella Lawson (in which she makes bread and butter sound like the most exotic meal in the world), a fascinating deep dive into whether birth order determines personality, what it’s like to be a normal person who gets wealthy very quickly, an illustrated guide to pretty much every houseplant imaginable, how to name your Black son in a racist country, and more.

This week: An utterly ridiculous, delightful piece in the Cut about forming friendships with the people in workout videos, how capitalism tricked us all (aka why the phrase ‘work hard play hard’ should be banned), a moving essay in the New Yorker on growing up in America with a "difficult" name, places where cats shouldn’t be, what people don’t want to let go of from pandemic life, and more.

This week: A love letter to Asian women, damming evidence that paints Orlando Bloom as a twat and James McEvoy is a lemon meringue pie-making God, a website that lets you virtually drive around cities and either listen to street noise or tune into local radio, a new OC podcast that promises juicy behind-the-scenes goss, a long list of ridiculous videos perfect to help you procrastinate, why did Princess Diana’s hair look like that, and more.

This week: Passionate, powerful words about the racial violence that keeps people from going home, five one-pot recipes from Anna Jones (including a Saag aloo shepherd’s pie that has Sunday night supper written all over it), a recap of everything that’s been going down at Gimlet and Reply All, a trick for turning a jar of marinated artichokes into a creamy pasta sauce that we’re totally claiming as our own, and more.

This week: A wonderful short story by Ann Patchett on the impermanence of our possessions, how to cope when sexual assault cases make the headlines, a love letter to the microwave (plus 17 recipes that hero the humble appliance), the best film performances over the last century, and birds and babies and TikToks, and more.