Sublime

her cohort included Timberlake, Ryan Gosling, and Christina Aguilera.

One of the greatest joys of being a teenager in the 1980s, as well as the films of John Hughes and bountiful opportunities for really big hair, was getting to read Smash Hits magazine at the height of its pomp and brilliance. An irreverent, ego-puncturing extravaganza of pop music, it also broke the rules of grammar and the English language itself

In 2019 the Emilia Report (named after England’s first published female poet, Emilia Bassano) analysed coverage of male and female writers and found that women were twice as likely to have their ages referenced – or, in the case of Sally Rooney, her appearance, ‘like a startled deer with sensuous lips’, according to one Swiss critic.

It appears that countless women born between the years of 1965 and 1978 are in love with John Cusack. I cannot fathom how he isn’t the number-one box-office star in America, because every straight girl I know would sell her soul to share a milkshake with that motherfucker. For upwardly mobile women in their