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We can't stop talking about...
... and our diagnoses
Ourselves  
... and our diagnoses
We’re all talking to our psychs — and many more are coming away with AuDHD diagnoses. Why?
Ego musicians  
Meanwhile, a new lyrical analysis of 12,000 songs from the past four decades has confirmed that we are officially self-obsessed.
Greening nutrition  
Keeping ourselves alive is no small feat. And now we’re meant to eat 30 different plants a week?!
Losing ambition  
No wonder we’re all depressed. Meet the millennials quitting hard work for the “soft life”.
Eat this
L'abomination
L'abomination
A viral croissant-cookie combo has landed in Sydney. Rafqa Touma was so brave and went to try it.
Extremely online
Extremely online
A stroke of genius from Delia Cai this week, whose newsletter set the internet ablaze with a series of anonymous hate reads oozing with unwarranted, delicious cynicism. No-one was safe: not menswear bros, not boulderers, not media peers. Discourse raged. There were hate reads of the hate reads. Negativity is so back – and, incidentally, so are butt cracks

Great reads: on giving up, on AI, on the therapy-fication of pop music. Close reads: on Kara Swisher, on Hunter Schafer, on The Sims’ new landlord game. Thirst read: on horny TikTok boyfriends

There are too many reads! You can never unread this.
The funniest things on the internet
Sarah Keyworth shows us their tabs
Sarah Keyworth shows us their tabs
The British comedian says their IRL friends don't appreciate their taste. Maybe you will like this sunflower singing Sia?
Read this
out this month
The best Australian books  
out this month
Our editors and critics on the new books they've enjoyed – and the ones they're keen to read.
Top of the list
An interview – claims bold  
Sian interviewed Bri Lee about her first novel The Work – and also about what it means to do the work as a writer in Australia. It got spicy.
Sian interviewed Bri Lee about her first novel The Work – and also about what it means to do the work as a writer in Australia. It got spicy.
An album – prep old  
Vampire Weekend new album! Big day for annoying people (me). Frontman Ezra Koenig chatted to us about finding optimism in the dystopia – and the seven-minute epic that closes the album. Only God Was Above Us is out now.
Vampire Weekend new album! Big day for annoying people (me). Frontman Ezra Koenig chatted to us about finding optimism in the dystopia – and the seven-minute epic that closes the album. Only God Was Above Us is out now.
A series – icy cold  
With his "ineffable charm and lightly reptilian hotness", Andrew Scott was born to play the effete conman Tom Ripley. Five stars for Netflix's eight-part series Ripley, which our review says is sumptuous in black and white and wonderfully malevolent.
With his
A film – Dev gold  
Dev Patel goes full Nicholas Winding Refn in his directorial debut Monkey Man, a neon-soaked vengeance thriller set in the Mumbai underworld – with serious martial arts chops on display. In cinemas.
Dev Patel goes full Nicholas Winding Refn in his directorial debut Monkey Man, a neon-soaked vengeance thriller set in the Mumbai underworld – with serious martial arts chops on display. In cinemas.
This week's weirdest story
Sato-san
Sato-san
According to a new study, everyone in Japan will have the last name Sato by 2531 – unless the country permits married couples to use separate surnames.
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