Our weekly recap highlighting the best feature stories from around the internet.
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Eleanor Catton Confronts the Men with Scythes - by Simon Wilson, Metro
"Does he [Sean Plunket] think that since we spent so much of 2013 and 2014 feting our new-found wonderful young New Zealand women, they should have realised we just want to admire them without having to think about what they believe? Women can be read and sung along to, but should not actually be heard?"
The Ballad of Blink-182: Why They Can’t (or Won’t) Break Up - by Steven Hyden, Grantland
"The outgoing generation always knocks what the incoming generation is into because they somehow believe that 14-year-olds stay 14 forever. But they don’t. They grow up, and they recontextualize the stuff they loved at 14 as the new focal point of culture. This is why every punk band in 2025 will be name-checking 5 Seconds of Summer while a handful of embittered dorks on a message board somewhere bicker about their favorite Iceage songs."
Rick Ross: Man of the People - by Devin Friedman, GQ
Rick Ross: "I work out. I do RossFit. I call it RossFit; it's really CrossFit. I changed some of my eating habits. Of course, I still enjoy myself, so I still go out—you know, two, three days a week—and do it like a boss. But I cut back on certain things."
Greece shows what can happen when the young revolt against corrupt elites - by Paul Mason, The Guardian
"So the economic collapse – about which all Greeks, both right and leftwing, are bitter – is not just seen as a material collapse. It demonstrated complete myopia among the European policy elite. In all of drama and comedy there is no figure more laughable as a rich man who does not know what he is doing."
Justin Bieber and the Commodification of Roasts - by David Sims, The Atlantic
"The publicity tour for Bieber's roast is already in full force — we have anonymous folks telling TMZ it'll serve as "therapy" for the troubled popstar in an article filled with unsourced anecdotes claiming that he's on the road to being a better person after years beating up paparazzi and drinking and driving."
For years I have wanted Comedy Central to roast me. They said only if I provided them w/ more material so for a year now I have worked hard
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) January 20, 2015
To Fall Out of Love, Do This - by Susanna Wolff, The New Yorker
"The following questions are part of a follow-up study to see whether the intimacy between two committed partners can be broken down by forcing them to ask each other thirty-six questions no one in a relationship should actually ask. 1. Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you like to punch in the face?"
Everybody Loves Marshawn Lynch - by Andrew Sharp, Grantland
"Yesterday, [Lynch] showed up [to media day] to face thousands of reporters and said, “I’m here so I won’t get fined,” 29 times in a row. Anyone who can read that sentence without smiling is taking all this far too seriously. The only real downside of Lynch’s silence turning into media day’s biggest story is that it obscures his actual story. It’s one of the more incredible tales we probably won’t hear this week."
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