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– Alyx Gorman and Michael Sun

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How to pick the perfect pillow

The wrong pillow can disrupt sleep, so finding one that suits your style could well help you rest better.

Body blitz
Comprehensive screenings in spa-style longevity centres are popping up world wide. In London, Morwenna Ferrier goes in for a scan.

Office fits
Find business casual boring? Try ‘polished but easy’ spring workwear instead.

Messy bits
Carefully planning your routine can feel good in a chaotic world, but there's a limit to living ‘intentionally’.

Cook this

Mussels in rasam

O'Tama Carey of Lankan Filling Station shares a sour and soupy recipe, that's a cheap and easy way to impress dinner guests, or just impress yourself as a mid-week meal.

Extremely online

We know AI is stupid and AI is evil but can AI be sexy? Also in questionable questions: is gossip art? Is the Taylor Swift cinematic universe over? Is this really the hottest leftwing influencer? They’re putting lead in protein powder, which explains sooooo much.

Good reads: on maxxing-maxxing, the fall of intellect, and the rise of the global culture war.

Good profiles: of Charli xcx, Tyler, the Creator, Francesca Albanese, and Lorde’s producer.

Top of the list

An album – something broke
Tame Impala's new album Deadbeat is full of dancefloor fillers. It's also very sad.

Tame Impala's new album Deadbeat is full of dancefloor fillers. It's also very sad.

A film – is this woke?
Our critic didn't like Luca Guadagnino's latest, After the Hunt. But it's Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield in a terse campus drama so we'll still be watching. In cinemas.

Our critic didn't like Luca Guadagnino's latest, After the Hunt. But it's Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield in a terse campus drama so we'll still be watching. In cinemas.

Another film – lucky folk
Colin Farrell goes full lounge lizard in Ballad of a Small Player as a seedy gambler who risks it all at a Macau casino. In cinemas now, on Netflix 29 October.

Colin Farrell goes full lounge lizard in Ballad of a Small Player as a seedy gambler who risks it all at a Macau casino. In cinemas now, on Netflix 29 October.

A book – take a toke
This extract from Malala's memoir Finding My Way is about – verbatim – 'how smoking a bong brought back the trauma of being shot by the Taliban'. Out 28 October.

This extract from Malala's memoir Finding My Way is about – verbatim – 'how smoking a bong brought back the trauma of being shot by the Taliban'. Out 28 October.

This week's weirdest story

ET don't roam

An astrophysicist has proposed a ‘radically mundane’ theory for why humans have yet to encounter extraterrestrials: they got bored of space exploration.

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