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Banning phones at gigs? That’s a bad call
Sabrina Carpenter wants to ban phones at gigs. Why don’t we just ban joy, too?
- Robert Moran
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The TV star who would make the ideal Beijing cellmate
Cheng Lei’s resilience in the face of adversity is admirable, but the tragedy of her three years in detention is that she should never have endured them.
- Michael Ruffles
Looking for something new to read? Here are 10 of the latest books
Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction books
- Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll
The books I loved as a teen have dated, but they got one thing right
The cheesy Sweet Dreams romance novels and the soapie Sweet valley High series haven’t aged particularly well, but I did take inspiration from them for my own teen romance novel.
- Nova Weetman
Girl, so revealing: Lorde lets it all out
A viral verse on a Brat remix forced Lorde to get vulnerable. On her new album Virgin, she gets even rawer.
- Jules LeFevre
This hilarious, moving book confirms that women are the superior sex
Emma Pattee’s debut novel is a funny and heart-wrenching feminist survivalist tale.
- Jessie Tu
A deep dive into Bitcoin’s enduring riddle: the identity of its inventor
A former WIRED writer details his 15-year search for the true identity of “Mr Nakamoto”, the pseudonym behind the cryptocurrency.
- Kurt Johnson
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- Home tech
Tech’s ‘improvements’ are making my life worse (and wetter)
The future is here, and it’s full of damp laundry and unsolicited AI.
- Richard Glover
Your step count is boring me to tears (and probably everyone else too)
It is a modern lifestyle choice to pin our personalities to how much activity we get up to every day. And then telling everybody about it.
- Mali Waugh
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- WordPlay
Words keep coming and they don’t stop coming
Dictionary sites are overflowing with limbo words hoping to join the official lexicon.
- David Astle
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