The moment I came across the scent Myrrhe by Headspace I was dragged back in time. I was no longer 24, browsing a concept store in Berlin with my girlfriend; instead, I was 15, on the cusp of a gay awakening, sitting in the confessional box of my local Catholic [...]

While growing up in a small town in Kent, 20-year-old Annabelle never considered herself working-class. “Back home, because my mum has a mortgage and we don’t live in a council house, I’m considered middle-class,” she says. But that all changed when she started studying at the University of Cambridge. “I [...]

She’s So Hungry, a new short-story collection by Eliza Clark, is both hilarious and terrifying. It encompasses sci-fi, body horror, dystopian fiction, maritime folklore and a coming-of-age drama. There’s also a ghost story told entirely through online reviews of an Italian-Chinese fusion takeaway, which is more disturbing than ithellip; read more [...]

For decades, Guatemala was frozen in time, photographer Juan Brenner tells Dazed. Held down by colonisation, civil wars and natural disasters, the Mesoamerican country had historically lagged behind its Latin American counterparts. But, in recent years, all of that is changing. “Now, Guatemala has the second highest smartphones per capita [...]

Most God-fearing people are wary of artificial intelligence (AI), yet it’s becoming increasingly entrenched in our daily lives – from films like The Last Screenwriter by Peter Luisi, whose script was credited to ChatGPT, to the rise of AI filters that turn you into a witch or princess (remember when [...]