The Shift With Sam Baker

The Shift With Sam Baker

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Things to read, watch & listen to this weekend

What's got my attention #124

sam baker
Nov 14, 2025
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In this week’s issue: The moneypause. What might a modern romcom look like? The power of raising your voice. Roads not taken. Ageing counter-clockwise. Brilliant interviews with Sigourney Weaver, Lynne Ramsay and Bridget Riley. Actually useful advice on what to cook if you have people descending in two hours. Unfiltered faces. House-sharing in your 60s. And hot-off-the-press tickets for a live recording of The Shift podcast with the one and only

Catherine Newman
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• The inimitable

Terri White
on how work and success can sometimes be the solution and the problem.
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Julia Samuel
on what 35 years as a therapist taught her about endurance.
• When lipstick is $50/£40 a pop, it’s no longer a ‘little luxury’.
• Sarah Jessica Parker’s year of judging the Booker Prize. (This is absolutely lovely.) (Gift link)
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Cindy DiTiberio
on the stories she (and most of us) have swallowed.
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Kate Muir
on the moneypause.
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Kim France
has a new fashion column for confused Gen X dressers!

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