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Cool Girls Don't...Self-Optimise

OPTIMISATION FATIGUE?

Jun 26, 2025 • Beth Bentley

Why is reading so damn cool right now?

"Go to the literature" - Joan Didion

May 29, 2025 • Beth Bentley

NEW SERIES: The Cultural Omnivore...002

It's Pamela Dow, writing to us from the mysteriously chic heart of British public life

14 hrs ago • Beth Bentley

NEW SERIES: The Cultural Omnivore

001: Let's get harder to categorise

Jan 9 • Beth Bentley

I have rare things -> I have rare thoughts

Jan 5 • Beth Bentley

Your (un)official in-flight mag for wherever consumer culture's heading next. Expect turbulence.

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