After the Sandy School Elementary School shooting in 2012, where six adults and 20 young children were murdered by a lone gunman, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones began speculating that the deaths were staged and describing the tragedy as “a giant hoax” orchestrated as part of a plot to seize people’s [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]