Sublime

What are the women of pop music up to this summer? Being brats, Spencer Kornhaber writes. ⁠ ⁠ It may sound like an insult, “but when the hipster diva Charli XCX titled her new album ‘Brat’ … she crystalized a cultural mood: Seeming a little immature, a little selfish, a little nasty, has taken on an air of glamour,”... See more

The Performative Male — a relatively new social media archetype — is one who curates his aesthetic in a way that he thinks might render him more likable to progressive women. Such a man might sip on iced matcha lattes at a cafe while reading Sally Rooney or Joan Didion. He might wear wired headphones and baggy pants, and he would most likely be... See more

the literary it girls… eve babitz, emily henry, taylor jenkins reid, silvia moreno garcia, sally rooney, nina lacour, coco mellors, and zadie smith if they write it, i will read it… and probably buy multiple copies of it.

Benson Boone, the latest of pop music’s anointed It Boys, seems to be learning the limits of his charm in real time, writes Spencer Kornhaber.⁠ ⁠ As Kornhaber watched a livestream of this year’s Coachella music festival, “something in Boone’s face—a tightness around his saucer eyes, a droop in his beaming grin—suggested... See more