The Audio Long Read Gender Athleisure, barre and kale: the tyranny of the ideal woman – podcast More ways to listen Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify RSS Feed Download Written by Jia Tolentino, read by Kelly Burke and produced by Simon Barnard
Mon 23 Sep 2019 12.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email How we became suckers for the hard labor of self-optimization. Read More...
1000 films to see before you dieMoviesFilms beginning with M (part 1)M
(Fritz Lang, 1931)
While others were savouring the novelty of talking pictures, Lang, as usual, was thinking much further ahead, unearthing subject matter that we're still fascinated with today: serial killers and police investigations. What's more, Peter Lorre's child-murderer is almost the hero of the piece, and the rest of society comes in for a pasting: inept police, hypocritical criminals, even neglectful parents. Read More...
Vincent Williams Jr: ‘I bought a scarf and it looked like I had shopped at Baby Gap.’ Photograph: Johnathon Kelso/The GuardianVincent Williams Jr: ‘I bought a scarf and it looked like I had shopped at Baby Gap.’ Photograph: Johnathon Kelso/The GuardianKnittingFor the ‘sew bros’ who took up needlework during lockdown, casting on means chilling out
The first time Brendan Girak knitted in public, he took a friend for support. “Lara and I went to a big park and that put my mind at ease,” the 28-year-old from Perth, Australia, says. Read More...
