Plus: Microwave lasagne, Jessie Ware, it girls and flip flop fines
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Bali's influencer backlash
Posting away  
Bali's influencer backlash
"Luiza Kosykh claims she didn’t know the 700-year-old tree she posed naked in front of was sacred." And that's just the opening sentence.
Over tourists  
Italian hot spots are cooling on visitors. Case in point: Cinque Terre's €2,500 flip flop fine.
Byron's jurists  
Independent Planning Commission tells Byron Bay to go ahead (and go harder) in its battle with Airbnb.
Grecian purists  
While everyone else is snapping selfies on Santorini, why not roll some filo in the Peloponnese?
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Jinghua Qian ate more than 3kg of supermarket lasagne in a single week to find the best one.
Extremely online
Extremely online
As literally every publication continues to shut down, who will be the arbiters of taste? Bravely, we will step in. Out this week: quiet luxury, finding your real self, and Bed Bath & Beyond (RIP). In: floor plans, big metal dongs, and Patti LuPone. Also in, forever: it girls – according to Cory Kennedy, Alexa Chung, and New York’s original power broker

Good reads: an essay on plastic, some goss on Buzzfeed, and a fishy piece of food journalism

Finally, a question to ask yourself: are you thunder or lightning?
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A film – marital woes  
Our critic describes Polite Society – an action satire taking on the marriage market – as Austen, but slapstick. If that doesn't make you run to the cinema...
Our critic describes Polite Society – an action satire taking on the marriage market – as Austen, but slapstick. If that doesn't make you run to the cinema...
A book – stunning prose  
Alexis Wright's new book Praiseworthy lives up to its name. It's 700 pages and covers all of time, space, genre, living, dead, material, un-material. A titan of First Nations literature.
Alexis Wright's new book Praiseworthy lives up to its name. It's 700 pages and covers all of time, space, genre, living, dead, material, un-material. A titan of First Nations literature.
An album – on your toes  
Move over Dua Lipa: the queen of modern disco is back, and she's classier than ever. Jessie Ware's That! Feels Good! is out now, and also lives up to its name.
Move over Dua Lipa: the queen of modern disco is back, and she's classier than ever. Jessie Ware's That! Feels Good! is out now, and also lives up to its name.
Another album – intimate flows  
Tiny Ruins have been making music for over a decade. Their latest album Ceremony is their most intricate – and rewards deep listening.
Tiny Ruins have been making music for over a decade. Their latest album Ceremony is their most intricate – and rewards deep listening.
This week's weirdest story
For naked landlord
Sunny outlook  
For naked landlord
A German court has ruled against a company that withheld rent in response to their building owner's courtyard habits.
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