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We are the Renata Adlers of looking at our phones.

- Michael Sun
We can't stop talking about...
Can you really have fun at a festival – sober?
Going cold turkey  
Can you really have fun at a festival – sober?
Resident expert Laura Snapes reports from the frontlines.
Only blunt  
Or just go Cali sober – though the health benefits are more dubious than you'd expect.
Fish in front  
Quitting red meat and eating tinned fish instead could save 750,000 lives a year, according to a new study.
Party stunt  
Meanwhile, these people are anything but sober. Look upon this archive of 90s Euro raves and weep.
Eat this
Taco Tuesday
Taco Tuesday
Alice Zaslavsky's fish taco recipe is so easy that you can actually make it on a Tuesday.
Extremely online
Extremely online
Huge week for cataclysmic events! First: the earthquake heard around the world (or least Brooklyn) which sent everyone from Jessica Chastain to Ice Spice into a tailspin and left no native New Yorker unscathed. 

Then: the total eclipse which unearthed a vintage Annie Dillard essay and filled the parks with hordes of bespectacled nerds, gays, and Lorde – all peering up in religious wonder

Finally: the take that launched a thousand takes – a Bookforum takedown of Lauren Oyler shared like fragments of Sappho; so devastating it could only be described as critic-on-critic violence; so gratifyingly insane it single-handedly resurrected literary criticism.

Anyway. Good reads: Naomi Fry went to Chateau Marmont, Kyle Chayka went offline, and Choire Sicha went throuple mode. Rihanna is onto us and the rich are on Ozempic. Whatever happened to fun?
The funniest things on the internet
John Kearns shows us his tabs
John Kearns shows us his tabs
The British standup might be the first person in this column who is not terminally online? Nevertheless, he persisted.
Top of the list
A film – sparkling scenes  
The best film of the year is finally out! It's got gravediggers, it's got Josh O'Connor in a sleazy suit, it's got gangsters and communes and beautiful artefacts. Five stars for La Chimera – in cinemas now.
The best film of the year is finally out! It's got gravediggers, it's got Josh O'Connor in a sleazy suit, it's got gangsters and communes and beautiful artefacts. Five stars for La Chimera – in cinemas now.
Another film – lean and mean  
Alex Garland's polarising spec fic Civil War is also out – about a group of journalists in a US ravaged by internal conflict. It's full of nasty spectacle, but does it have substance? Decide for yourself in cinemas.
Alex Garland's polarising spec fic Civil War is also out – about a group of journalists in a US ravaged by internal conflict. It's full of nasty spectacle, but does it have substance? Decide for yourself in cinemas.
A set of books – readers seen  
Three new Australian novels tackle the invisibility of ageing women in life and culture. In one of them – Jane Tara's Tilda is Visible – the protagonist literally starts disappearing, one body part at a time.
Three new Australian novels tackle the invisibility of ageing women in life and culture. In one of them – Jane Tara's Tilda is Visible – the protagonist literally starts disappearing, one body part at a time.
An album – fresh and clean  
UK producer Nia Archives broke out during the pandemic from her bedroom. Now she's playing for Beyoncé and her new album Silence is Loud hurtles dance traditions into the future at lightning speed.
UK producer Nia Archives broke out during the pandemic from her bedroom. Now she's playing for Beyoncé and her new album Silence is Loud hurtles dance traditions into the future at lightning speed.
This week's nicest story
Dude, where's my bus?
Dude, where's my bus?
Not long after Priscilla became a smash hit, the titular bus disappeared. 30 years later, she's been found – and the story is worthy of its own film.
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