The Guardian has announced that Elena Ferrante, secretive author of the wildly successful Neapolitan series, will have a new column addressing things like “childhood, aging, gender and, in her debut article, first love.” Expect to have your heart ripped out on a weekly basis.
Mountain biking enthusiast Gary Johnson is having a tough election season, what with that Syria boo-boo and his running mate suggesting folks might want to go ahead and vote for someone else. The Guardian’s Paul Lewis successfully located and rode Johnson’s last nerve, causing Johnson to demand, rather shoutily, “Why…
Dev Hynes of Blood Orange has a challenging relationship with The Guardian. In 2013, the publication criticized him for crowdsourcing money after his home, belongings, and dog burned up in a house fire. At the time, he swore he’d never speak with them again.
The controversy over Judge Aaron Persky’s sentencing of Stanford rapist Brock Turner continues, with The Guardian reporting that another wealthy defendant received a light sentence in his courtroom on the same day. Ming Hsuan Chiang, who beat his fiancée until she was bruised and bloody, was offered a 72-day plea deal…
On Thursday, Stephen Marche gave his woman editor at The Guardian a real lesson on what does and what doesn’t constitute classic bro locker room talk.
Through the power of social media, more and more female motorcyclists are connecting and joining each other on rides. The Guardian reports an influx of women riders finding others of their ilk through social channels such as Instagram. These women are also starting cool motorcycle collectives throughout the country,…
Donald Trump continues to be afflicted with a peculiar ailment, wherein rivers of diarrhea run directly from his brain, out of his mouth, and into his typing fingers, sending tweet after tweet about “illegal immigrants” from Mexico and how awful they are. In response, the Mexican people, once determined to politely…
An extensive study by the Guardian has found what many of us already knew to be true: Black and brown Americans are more likely to be killed during encounters with the police and are less likely to be armed than white people who suffer the same fate.
A new recording obtained by the Guardian shows that South Carolina police officer Michael Slager was laughing with a senior officer minutes after shooting Walter Scott. Slager, who is being charged with murder, laughed as he told the other officer that his adrenaline was “pumping.”
Oral copulation is not for everyone. Some people love it (like one date I had who told me he just wanted to "slurp on dicks all day" while we were sitting in the middle of a casual dining establishment) and some, like the wife who refuses even after her husband promised never to come in her mouth, don't. And people…
Earlier this week, British musician Devonté Hynes lost all his belongings when a fire broke out in his apartment. Even more tragically, the fire killed his beloved dog Cupid. Seeking a way to help, the mother of his girlfriend Samantha Urbani (of the band Friends) started a Go Fund Me that has raised over $24,000 from…
There's a fantastic interview with Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett over at the Guardian today. In it, she discusses everything from her fellow celebrities to climate change and even addresses the loss of her father.
There's a debate raging in The Guardian. Yesterday, DJ Connell threw down the gauntlet by suggesting that "the 'chick-lit' label does nothing for humorous female writers already suffering exclusion from an old boys' club." Today, a chick-lit author responds:
"But how about being fat? Isn't it bad for her? Aren't any of these caring teachers going to mention heart disease, or talk to Precious about overeating as addiction, or as the symptom of abuse?" Really, Peter Bradshaw?
"What with the blood-like floor and the heaps of ash-coloured concrete intestines, these works were forcing me to think about bodies and new life, and even death," writes Isabella Welch of artist Anish Kapoor. Welch is 10 years old.
"They may as well have said, 'Yes, that's a shame about you being poor – why have you not considered being rich?'" - Hadley Freeman [The Guardian]
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A new rape alarm called the "Ila Dusk" is set to go on sale in the UK in a month, and it claims to be more effective than previous alarms because, instead of a siren, the alarm emits the sound of a "woman screaming." Thing is, it isn't that effective, as the Guardian's Emine Saner discovered when she decided to test…
The Brits are dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Now only the French remain, and we all know how hopeless they are. [The Times]
Let's say you finally got that no good pulse-with-a-penis you've been living with the last ten years to agree to marry you. How would you feel if he then decided to ask your father's permission? Would you feel all warmy and gooey because you're a girly girl and you have ten stuffed animals on your bed at the age of…