This week: tips for hosting the perfect dinner party, how AI is generating art that’s equal parts strange and stunning, a love letter to the radio alarm clock, digging into instagram’s vibe shift, Lizzo shows the world how to own up to mistakes, and more

This week: the hilariously transparent queer pandering of corporate America for profit, a long overdue explanation of why women feel the cold more than men, the difference between being single in your thirties and being “still single” in your thirties, the New York Times discovers flatmates, and more

This week: Milingimbi woman Sylvia Nulpinditj becomes the first woman to commentate an entire AFL game in a First Nations language, turns out men only listen to men on women author recommendations, how it feels to lose a name, some sage advice for those of us thinking about a side hustle, and more

This week: Anne Helen Petersen puts into words what we’re all thinking in the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting, an excellent explanation of why the teal Independents won, wise advice for anyone wanting to tell their partner to pick up their share of the domestic load, the agony and ecstasy of an open relationship, and more

This week: How a tweet about finding the cause of SIDS went viral for all the wrong reasons, a painful look inside the booming business of Brazilian butt lift recovery houses, a genius tool that finds the easiest IKEA items to assemble, parents all over the world weigh in on how they choose their kids’ last names, a love letter to Aldi, and more

This week: Essential prep to make it through the year’s second Mercury Retrograde unscathed, what $4 gets you for lunch in Hong Kong, the unlikely origins of that TikTok jiggle jiggle dance craze, honest reviews of every book on the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022 longlist, and more

This week: A brief and incomplete list of the people and institutions that can go f*ck themselves this week, Roxane Gay writes with justifiable rage about what’s at stake when Roe v Wade is overturned, a startling honest account of #Vanlife, Alison Roman on cooking for dietary restrictions, a raw and honest essay in the Guardian about the before and after of motherhood, and more

This week: What Twitter employees are saying about the sale, five women writers on where they write, our favourite interior porn of the week (with something for every aesthetic), a cutting assessment of the Canberra boys club by Annabel Crabb, and more

This week: How Coachella stopped being about music and became a content festival, Lena Dunham on friendship ten years after Girls, ten ways we can guard against our feelings of fear and dread when it comes to the climate emergency, there’s a new aesthetic in town and the kids are calling it 1980s Cocaine Decor, and more

This week: Why Etsy sellers are on strike this week (and how you can support them), a portal that allows you to discover random Substacks, a dreamy sneak peak of Conversations With Friends, sage advice for a woman who loves her kids – but wishes she wasn't a mother, a hot take on the importance of creating workplaces that make space for sadness, and more

This week: Ukrainian refugees photographed with the most important item they brought from home, why sewing your own clothes is having a moment, wise advice on how to move forward after setbacks and rejection, everything one millennial learned from trying out the new Gen Z dating apps, how to forgive someone who isn’t sorry, and more

This week: Grace Tame told us so, a hard but important read on all the things that white men say about Asian women, a juicy profile piece of Rose Matafeo in the New Yorker, how TV became the "good screen", an incredibly honest piece in British Vogue that asks some tough questions around self-love, and more

This week: Heart-wrenching reporting from the besieged city of Mariupol by the last two international journalists left, signs that you may have had Covid and not realised it, meet the young people fighting climate doomism, Hannah Gadsby writes eloquently and honestly about her autism diagnosis in the Guardian, how Ikea tricks you into buying more stuff, and more

This week: An epic Twitter thread with 23,000 (!!) sandwich recs, a wonderful piece in Meanjin about growing up in poverty and what it means to make it to uni, why the internet freaked out this week over the new Pixar film Turning Red, the Mayor of London unveiled a new campaign that FINALLY calls on men to change their behaviour, and more

This week: A great conversation about talking to kids (especially boys) about periods, depressing pandemic maths that shows how Covid stole our time, an excellent profile on the two women who built the PayGapBot that wreaked absolute HAVOC on Twitter this International Women's Day by calling out empty corporate celebrations, and more

This week: Short, sweet and silly things, including a new Haim song, Substack recs, fancy hotel recs, a photograph that will restore your faith in humanity, colourful homes, Tiktoks galore, and more

This week: A fascinating look inside a platonic life relationship, a WILD story about an influencer who tricked dozens of people into working for a fake digital design agency, a Twitter thread of free and cheap things that will make a meaningful difference to your stress levels, Sheila Heti on writing about grief, and more

This week: A piece in the New Yorker about teen lives interrupted by Covid that's equal parts mesmerising and heartbreaking, Wordle but for geography nerds, a tell-all tale that reveals what it’s like to go on the TV quiz show Mastermind, a look back at the original New York Magazine story that first exposed Anna Delvey's double life, and more

This week: A piece in the New Yorker about teen lives interrupted by Covid that's equal parts mesmerising and heartbreaking, Wordle but for geography nerds, a tell-all tale that reveals what it’s like to go on the TV quiz show Mastermind, a look back at the original New York Magazine story that first exposed Anna Delvey's double life, and more

This week: Five cooks from five Asian cultures share stories about what Lunar New Year means to them, how ‘link in bio’ became the new personal website, what not to say to someone who is grieving, how Reddit predicted the downfall of it-girl beauty brand Glossier, a history timeline game for all you history buffs that can’t get into Wordle, the unexpected joy of making friends as an adult, and more