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Wry doomerism
We’re taking a break next week! 

 Michael Sun
We can't stop talking about...
The banana just sold for $5.2m
Eat the rich  
The banana just sold for $5.2m
It "bridges the worlds of art, memes, and the cryptocurrency community," the buyer said. Each word crazier than the last!
Magritte balloons  
Meanwhile, someone just bought the most expensive Magritte painting ever sold – for $121m.
Gladiator boons  
Also breaking records: Ridley Scott, who's landed his highest ever international opening weekend for Gladiator II.
Silver spoons  
Spare a thought for the parents who are subsidising the Bank of Mum and Dad: now one of our clearest markers of inequality.
Eat this
Cake baking 101
Cake baking 101
The F in FAQ stands for flour.
Extremely online
Extremely online
Vanity Fair ran a longread about Cormac McCarthy’s secret 16-year-old muse and everyone hated the prose! It’s times like these that Twitter feels worthwhile again. RIP to that writer and RIP also to lookalike competitions, which are sinister now

Good reads: Charli xcx went on SNL; Nicole Kidman went to lunch; Chad Michael Murray went Magic Mike; Martha Stewart went to a rock show; and Dean Kissick went nuclear. 

Good questions: why are dogs so obsessed with this toy? Why are Japanese vinyl bars now everywhere? Will Taylor Swift end publishing? How did Ireland get so hot? Does the left need a Joe Rogan? Is it this guy?
The funniest things on the internet
Essie Randles' tour of her tabs
Essie Randles' tour of her tabs
Her list includes both an octopus and Kim Cattrall. She contains multitudes.
Top of the list
A film – spectacular sights  
So it's a box office sensation. But is Gladiator II any good? Does it even matter??
So it's a box office sensation. But is Gladiator II any good? Does it even matter??
Another film – Wicked delights  
The other half of Glicked is a "hyperreal ball pit of M&Ms for two and three-quarter hours," says our critic. He seems to mean it as a compliment.
The other half of Glicked is a
An album – gentle slights  
You know Father John Misty's shtick by now: endless self-laceration, wry doomerism, and LA superiority. His new album Mahashmashana ticks all those boxes – and it's enthralling.
You know Father John Misty's shtick by now: endless self-laceration, wry doomerism, and LA superiority. His new album Mahashmashana ticks all those boxes – and it's enthralling.
A show – dizzying heights  
With its fourth season, this adaptation of Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend proves why it's one of TV's finest series. On SBS on Demand.
With its fourth season, this adaptation of Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend proves why it's one of TV's finest series. On SBS on Demand.
This week's worst story
Verse versus
Verse versus
Subjects in a new study preferred AI poetry to human poetry. It's so over.
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