Hirsutes you, sir
Timothée Chalamet and the modern version of masculinity
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Recent editions
A tail of two Disneys
The little mermaid and Walt’s woke wars
The monsters in my head
Stephen Armstrong dives into Claire Dederer’s new book, Monsters, A Fan’s Dilemma, grappling with the issue of great work by monstrous men
Ding when you’re winning
The man from “chess city” who’s turning the game on its head.
The (lonely) king of the internet
Forget the King of England. Jimmy Donaldson, better known as Mr Beast, is King of YouTube – the first person in its history to rack up 150 million subscribers.
Arnault? Ah yes!
Succession planning in style is going on at LVMH – Europe’s first half-trillion-dollar company
Fame hungry
TikTok has been home to bizarre food trends since lockdown. Now it’s spawned another trend – #watertok; promoting synthetic syrups to spice up users’ water intake. But it may not be as harmless as it seems
No small beer
Why did Bud Light, America’s best-selling beer, take a punt with its latest marketing campaign?
Once upon a time in Malaysia
Why was Leonardo DiCaprio in a Washington DC court this week testifying against a rapper?
Nuclear Wintour
Kim Kardashian reportedly hasn’t been invited to the Met Gala. Has the fashion world moved on from influencers?
Austin Translation
SXSW is back to its pre-pandemic glory in Austin, Texas this week, defying in extravagant style the shadow of the SVB meltdown
Just another manic Mundi
A New York judge has ruled that auction house Sotheby’s should face trial in a fraud case which has held the art world agog for over a decade
It’s all gone wackadoodle at Fox
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