What's got my attention this week #39

Links, recs and whole bunch of things to get you through the weekend

It’s an extremely disquieting 30 years since Q magazine put PJ Harvey, Bjork and Tori Amos on the cover and then went and spoilt it with the coverline. The artists have endured, the print magazine not so much.

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• “Slut-shamed at 20, an icon at 50.” £ Monica Lewinsky, (who’s very near the top of my The Shift podcast wishlist!) is the face of Reformation and Vote.org at 50.
• It’s time to stop saying, “I wish I’d started this when I was younger.”
• Why do women still wear stilletos? (Bloody good question.)
• Why the feeling of exhaustion is key to tackling climate change.
• Wisdom of the week: “We are too soon old and too late smart.”
• Please tell me Marina Abramovic’s new skincare range is all in the name of art.
• “I kept wondering: do I drink too much?.” Love this by Catherine Newman.
• “I’m one of life’s aunties.” I spoke to Francesca Specter for her new series of intergenerational chats on The Shoulds.