The New Yorker

Are Disney adults the happiest debtors on earth?

Shouts & Murmurs: Corrections and clarifications to everything I’ve ever said

The Observer

Why do some people develop the lost camera films of total strangers?

Paths of desire: lockdown has lent a new twist to the trails we leave behind

The rise and fall of novelty bubble bath bottles

The New York Times

British reality television is a theatre of cruelty

Life after prison, on YouTube

This is what my belly looks like

The Telegraph

How the little green man took over the world – while his designer went forgotten

Why, after 3,000 years, the umbrella still hasn’t been beaten

The online trade in vintage sweets

New Statesman

The movie that doesn’t exist and the Redditors that think it does

How veganism went from a fringe food cult to a multibillion-pound industry

When my Polish grandmother was exiled to Siberia in WW2, India gave her a home

Wired

Greta Thunberg: how one teenager became the voice of the planet

Swipe right for equality: how Bumble is taking on sexism

Safe and sound: the dodgy, vulnerable fame of YouTube’s child ASMR stars

Empire

Inside the Hallmark Channel: the weird and wonderful world of made-for-TV movies

Deep Dive: Jimmy the Raven

Welcome to the curious, high-flying world of stand-ins

i News

And the winner is… How the pause became the biggest thing on reality television

Momo challenge: The media is whipping up a moral panic over a ‘suicide game’

The only way to make a good film about anorexia would be to make a bad one

GQ

Quote Brain: why you can’t stop hearing Hobbits and Simpsons in your head

One in ten men don’t think upskirting is sexual harassment – we investigate why

Red Dead Redemption 2’s male rape scene has divided players

Esquire

Operation Mincemeat: how Britain’s weirdest WWII mission became a Broadway musical

Financial Times

Vegan products are the wild west of ‘wackaging’

Fantasy home: Sliding into royal shoes in The Princess Diaries

What one day of eavesdropping in London taught me

New Scientist

The strange rise of mukbang parents who feed their kids fast food for cash

The truth about generations: why millennials aren’t special snowflakes

A new wave of apps say they can improve your friendships – can they?

British Airways High Life

What happens when your hotel becomes Insta-famous?

Stylist

Maybe, baby: the rise of motherhood ambivalence

The Special K Challenge: how a generation got hooked on a cereal diet

Inside the murky self-defence industry booming on TikTok

Grazia

Why does holding a takeaway coffee make me feel so powerful?

Anatomy of a viral trend

MIT Technology Review

Meet the wannabe kidfluencers struggling for stardom

“Am I going crazy or am I being stalked?” The disturbing world of gangstalking

Weight-loss injections have taken over the web

CityAM: The Magazine

Anatomy of a snack trolley

I recreated all my favourite TV tropes in real life

Penguin’s The Happy Reader

Issue No.9 – Three cheers for piracy

Issue No. 12 – Electropets

Tatler

Simply irresistible: make-up addicts

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Shock Horror (A)

Industrial Musicals

The Five Dahs

Rolling Stone UK

Whatever happened to the Brit Crew?

The Truman babies

Vox

Funko Pops: How aggressively cute toys for adults became a $686 million business

How foil balloons went from Instagram bait to every party in America

Shortlist

“I hated every woman”: Former incels explain how virginity evolves into rage

Face value: How movies cast “ugly” characters – and how it feels to get the part 

“I didn’t think I was blackout material”: How it feels to get rejected on national TV

Time Out

Why is central London suddenly so full of American sweet shops?

Dazed

Why I love the trashy, hated, live-action Bratz movie

How AI is being used to create fake revenge porn of political women

My search for the most obscure subculture on the whole of the internet

Mic

The futile, hypnotic quest of dumpster diving for gift cards

Vice

Seriously: why does everyone’s mum use that same cookie tin for sewing stuff?

Formerly “ugly” people describe how society treats you differently when you’re beautiful

Young, old, male, female: Who gets believed on the internet?

Curbed

Playhouse flippers: the parents renovating toy houses for toddlers

Paper

How-tos to hauls: ten years of beauty YouTube

How and why we still feel FOMO in lockdown

Refinery29

Our iPhone notes are poetry

Inside the highly organised world of purse towers

The internet said “dump him”, so I did…

Dice

The festival footprint

Penguin

‘Know My Name’ and the fallacy of the ‘perfect victim’

Could ‘green noise’ be your secret weapon to reading – and writing – more?

The best places to write your novel according to authors: tried and tested

Inc.

Why your nose knows what sells: inside the ascent of scent marketing

FFWD

Reality TV turned these kids into villains. YouTube helped them set the record straight

Why more and more people watch YouTube videos on 2x speed

How it feels to vlog your wife’s death

Dwell

A love letter to architectural follies

The Face

Inside the sexy Halloween costume industry

The case for The Muppet Lord of the Rings

McSweeney’s

We are unable to offer you a place at Yale because your essay read like the closing narration of a teen rom-com

Texts you should send me after we hang out

Air Mail

The fight back against true crime

Babbel

My missed opportunity to grow up bilingual

easyJet Traveller

Sweet escape: how Haribo comes up with a unique taste for every destination

Vogue

Why do I feel so blue after socialising?

How I made peace with my past cringiness