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Mormon mummies
I am once again asking someone to send me Sally Rooney merch.

 Michael Sun
We can't stop talking about...
Is that blue or green?
Picking winners  
Is that blue or green?
A neuroscientist has gone viral for a game testing colour perception – and the results blue him away (sorry).
Author seen  
Charlotte Wood is the first Australian to make the Booker shortlist in a decade – and she says prizes are "so much luck".
Silver screen  
It is definitely too early for Oscars odds – but here they are anyway. Kieran Culkin for best actor!!!!!!
Not so keen  
Shōgun, meanwhile, swept the Emmys this week. It's capital-P prestige TV – but Stuart Heritage wasn't so impressed.
Eat this
Mezze mania
Mezze mania
Salad, hummus, potatoes, beans: Lebanese breakfast is maybe the best breakfast?
Extremely online
Extremely online
Are you cool enough for Sally Rooney’s launch party? Probably not, but are you cool enough to read the book? Also no. Alas: read this review instead, or this review, or this review, or this review. Intermezzo: out on Tuesday! If you have already read it I hate you

Also in good reads: i-D met Julian Casablancas, LitHub met the modern-day Proust, the New Yorker met some Mormon mummies, and GQ tried – and failed – to meet Maggie Cheung

Epic battles: this writer v The Atlantic, Julianne Moore v Tilda Swinton, Slate v Jeopardy, Todd Solondz v the world. It’s a brutal world! Time to succumb to our most basic desires.
The funniest things on the internet
Lucy Blakiston's tour of her tabs
Lucy Blakiston's tour of her tabs
Blakiston founded the very viral, very funny Instagram account @shityoushouldcareabout. So you should trust her.
Top of the list
An album – on the nose  
Katy Perry’s ill-fated album 143 has arrived after possibly the worst rollout in history. Maybe you want to listen out of morbid curiosity?
Katy Perry’s ill-fated album 143 has arrived after possibly the worst rollout in history. Maybe you want to listen out of morbid curiosity?
A film – body woes  
After a Cannes premiere that wowed, shocked, and disgusted everyone simultaneously, Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley’s body swap gone wrong is finally here! It’s gaudy, it’s nasty, it’s not for the weak-stomached. The Substance is in cinemas.
After a Cannes premiere that wowed, shocked, and disgusted everyone simultaneously, Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley’s body swap gone wrong is finally here! It’s gaudy, it’s nasty, it’s not for the weak-stomached. The Substance is in cinemas.
Another film – heavy blows  
Also nasty: Speak No Evil, a remake of the Danish horror of the same name now starring James McAvoy in his “most threatening” role: a killer allergic to middle-class pleasantries. In cinemas.
Also nasty: Speak No Evil, a remake of the Danish horror of the same name now starring James McAvoy in his “most threatening” role: a killer allergic to middle-class pleasantries. In cinemas.
A book – sad prose  
Call Me By Your Name author André Aciman has written a memoir about his adolescence – and like his novels, it’s filled with wisps of memory and longing. My Roman Year is out now.
Call Me By Your Name author André Aciman has written a memoir about his adolescence – and like his novels, it’s filled with wisps of memory and longing. My Roman Year is out now.
This week's nicest story
Moo Deng
Moo Deng
She is a baby hippo and she is the internet's latest obsession.
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