Immunity as metaphor, comics for introverts, and an ode to good taste

Gen Z trends, the sudden virality of Chili’s, and a cigarette renaissance

Hot peppers, new fences, and drinking from wild water

Elusive stop-motion animators, rejecting gray hairs, and the ubiquity of rectangles

Ladcore, journalists vs. content creators, and the future of dating apps

A Dolly Parton cover, drama on Lolita Twitter, and scammy texts

Death, birds, envy, faith, and how boring ideology is

Unsent letters, reckless bias for action, and rhub-apple frangipane crostata

Year of Orwell, a mysterious mountain kingdom, and the mind-bending effects of getting hench