I have so many problems with Twitter! Or at least the corner of Twitter that is most visible to me. I just think it’s a really toxic place, and that there’s no way to “win” the fights I keep compulsively getting into there. My many hours on Twitter, in addition to (I think) making me feel twitchier and just generally worse than I would if I weren’t on the platform, rob me of time I could spend catching up on all the work I am behind on due to my disorganization and tendency sometimes to overextend myself.

Who is the author of this passage describing? He hated the EU very deeply, he said. For a while, he had remained content with Britain’s part in the world, till gradually it dawned on him just how trivial this was. In the historical mayhem of his own lifetime, he could point to no one occasion: simply he knew that if England were out of the game, the price of fish would not be altered by a farthing.

Taylor Swift has always had an innate gift that allows her to perfectly imbue songs with distinct emotions by using hyperspecific details to create the sound of a feeling. It’s one of the things that has made her songwriting stick so hard and for so long, and it mostly recurs in her love songs – it’s difficult not to be affected by the momentary lovestruck fantasies of “Enchanted,” the intense passion of new romance in “Fearless” and “Sparks Fly,” and the touching partnership on display in “Lover.

This passage appears on the first page of Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri, translated by Morgan Giles: I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a book. There may be words, and the pages may be numbered, but there is no plot.

For more than 20 years, Animal Collective has remained one of the most celebrated indie bands from the United States, constantly innovating from album to album, dabbling in drone and avant-rock, noise and free folk, dub reggae and psychedelic pop. Consisting of David Portner (Avey Tare), Noah Lennox (Panda Bear), Brian Weitz (Geologist), and Josh Dibb (Deakin), the band has maintained their adventurous spirit through an openness to who participates in each release, a diversity of songwriting strategies, and a willingness to bring other collaborators on board.