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Hog on green
Gimme, gimme more.

– Alyx Gorman and Michael Sun
We can't stop talking about...
's book
It's Britney  
's book
Spears's memoir The Woman in Me dropped this week. "Anyone looking for starry anecdotes or studio vignettes won’t find them here," writes our critic Laura Snapes. Instead you'll get "a focused story that makes inarguable the ties between patriarchy and exploitation".
Free at last  
Unfiltered, off-message and "gloriously unstable", this memoir shows Britney is finally "dictated by no one but herself," writes Emma Brockes.
Awful parts  
Only looking for the low-lights? We've listed out the memoir's most shocking moments.
Recent past  
And for a glimpse into how we let this happen, pick up Toxic by Sarah Ditum – a scathing take on noughties misogyny, told through the lens of celebrity culture.
Cook this
Emiko Davies’ everyday Japanese dishes
Emiko Davies’ everyday Japanese dishes
Simple and speedy, her onigiri, donburi and one-pot chicken rice go a long way with short grains.
Extremely online
Extremely online
Happy Halloween! This man grew the world’s largest pumpkin, and this woman grew the world’s most Taylor Swift pumpkin. Speaking of Taylor, Vulture dined like her for a week. 

The teens want less hog on screen and these golfers want less hog on green. Writers can’t decide whether they love the internet or hate the internet. At least Taylor Lorenz is staying logged on forever. 

Finally, a series of love letters to cleanse the soul.
 

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The funniest things on the internet
Alistair Fawcus shows us his tabs
Alistair Fawcus shows us his tabs
It's mostly vintage memes and total chaos.
Top of the list
A book – sassy prose  
The buzziest book of the year is out and it reads like "a gen Z Bridget Jones". Sassy and sardonic, Green Dot takes aim at cargo shorts, adulterous older men, and economic woes – even if its narrator remains frustratingly disaffected.
The buzziest book of the year is out and it reads like
An album – sweet repose  
Melbourne singer-songwriter Angie McMahon's new album Light, Dark, Light Again is delicate and dextrous. Its incantations feel like a balm for anxiety.
Melbourne singer-songwriter Angie McMahon's new album Light, Dark, Light Again is delicate and dextrous. Its incantations feel like a balm for anxiety.
A film – work blows  
David Fincher is catnip to a certain kind of guy – including our reviewer, who awarded five stars to his latest film The Killer, following an un-named, yoga-loving hitman out-running assassins of his own. In cinemas now and on Netflix 10 November.
David Fincher is catnip to a certain kind of guy – including our reviewer, who awarded five stars to his latest film The Killer, following an un-named, yoga-loving hitman out-running assassins of his own. In cinemas now and on Netflix 10 November.
Another film – sweaty shows  
A new documentary captures the rise and self-destruction of Nick Cave's post-punk band The Birthday Party, with plenty of 80s archival footage from heaving pubs and musty living rooms. Mutiny in Heaven is in cinemas now.
A new documentary captures the rise and self-destruction of Nick Cave's post-punk band The Birthday Party, with plenty of 80s archival footage from heaving pubs and musty living rooms. Mutiny in Heaven is in cinemas now.
This week's greatest life goal
so I went to live in a cave
I had a heart attack at 37  
so I went to live in a cave
I wanted to heal ... So I began six months of hunting and foraging, with a pile of leaves for a bed.
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