Weekend Five

Forget beaches: Here are 5 smart books for your summer reading list

Whether you’re craving comfort, perspective or escape, these five books can accompany you over the slower rhythm of summer.

Currently Obsessed

There's a word for what happens to you when you become a mother

Lucy Jones's Matrescence gave me the language I didn't know I needed and an argument I didn't know I was ready to make

Love, Etc.

Dating, according to the algorithm

Modern dating rules nobody taught us are now running our love lives. How did we get here?

Currently Obsessed

'The Drama' will make you squirm. Watch it anyway.

The dark comedy makes you laugh just as much as it makes you wince.

Wellness

Perimenopause is everything everywhere all at once. And then some.

For decades, the coping mechanisms held. Then perimenopause arrived and stripped them away. What came next was a diagnosis that reframed everything.

Love, Etc.

‘Swipe Therapy’: On dating, heartbreak and healing in the digital age

Mira Sumanti's Swipe Therapy is part memoir, part survival guide for anyone who has ever loved messily and learned slowly.

Love, Etc.

Can we please stop getting into situationships?

Why do we hold on to something that was never quite there?

Family Matters

Everyone gets a holiday ... except mothers?

The trip was supposed to be a break for everyone in my extended family. So why was my mother-in-law up in the wee hours?

Wellness

She’s not fine: What years of dismissing women’s pain cost

For 15 years, everyone told me the pain I felt every month was normal. Turns out, it wasn’t.

Currently Obsessed

Two girls, two worlds, but one message from Indonesian cinema

One grew up in 1960s Surabaya, the other was born on Mars; both have something to teach us about facing an uncertain world with open arms.

Weekend Five

5 shows not from Hollywood that you can relate to

From Seoul to Mumbai, these five Asian titles capture everyday emotions that feel closer to home than most Hollywood shows.

Currently Obsessed

‘Enough’: The greenest choice in a world of more

I've spent years studying the climate crisis. It took my mother's permanent marker on a 25-year-old fridge to show me what I was missing.

Warm Takes

When a gift is never just a gift

We exchange gifts thinking it's a showcase of care. But somewhere between the ribbon and the Instagram story, it can become a form of debt.

Warm Takes

Performing hunger: Notes from behind the café curtain

Is restraint without intent inherently noble in the eyes of the divine, or are we just hungry for the optics?

Warm Takes

Sorry for eating: The month of restraint and our urge to control

Ramadan asks us to practice restraint. But somewhere along the way, we started asking everyone else to practice it too.