Big feelings and nowhere to go: how Gen Z reinvented the power ballad
Olivia Rodrigo’s global hit Drivers License is the epitome of new-school pop songwriting, where sexuality is complex, emotions are specific and bombast is traded for intimacy
September 2019
From Rita Ora to Lena Dunham: how a podcast about celebrity became a 'recipe for joy'
Across 350 shows, Who? Weekly hosts Lindsey Weber and Bobby Finger have amassed a loyal fanbase by poking at the rich and fame-less
June 2019
Halston review – glitzy 70s designer all dressed up
Frédéric Tcheng’s pretentious documentary charts the rise and fall of the boy from Iowa who became a New York fashion icon
July 2017
Jenny Zhang: ‘The young girl has always been reviled and fetishised’
Pod complex
A Piece of Work: Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson hosts a modern art podcast
January 2017
'Think about the bigger picture': life lessons from Meryl Streep and other successful women
They’ve won Oscars, Pulitzers and Nobel peace prizes: eight women at the top of their game tell us how they got there
February 2016
First episode of David Bowie’s Blackstar miniseries posted on Instagram
The first of a 16-part series called Unbound, with music from Blackstar and starring Tavi Gevinson and Patricia Clarkson, has been posted to Instagram
August 2015
Jessica Valenti column
It's about time young women get credit for their feminism
Jessica Valenti
Celebrities like Amandla Stenberg and Rowan Blanchard disprove the old misconception that young women aren’t involved in the movement
June 2015
Michael Ian Black: 'I don’t have a very good sense of humor'
The Wet Hot American Summer and The State actor, writer, comedian and podcast host talks about How To Be Amazing and his return to camp
May 2015
Rising star: meet Oslo's 15-year-old answer to Tavi Gevinson
Norwegian fashion writer Elise By Olsen has been blogging since she was eight and now runs her own magazine. Here she discuss impossible beauty standards, Scandinavian style and how to publish a magazine in between doing homework
March 2015
Children's books
Top 10 feminist icons in children's and teen books
From Matilda to Malala to Katniss Everdeen, Sarah Alderson chooses the 10 best feminists from fiction and non fiction
December 2014
Fashion blog
Four-year-old Instagram star Mayhem designs a collection for J Crew
Hannah Marriott: Four-year-old J Crew designer Mayhem makes teen blogger Tavi Gevinson seem like a veteran of the style set
September 2014
Fashion blog
Who is Tavi Gevinson?
Rebecca Carroll column
Women in Clothes is a banal and stunningly self-important book
This is Our Youth review: an anthem for stewed youth
Tavi Gevinson: ‘I am awesome and mighty and cannot be made small’
April 2014
Arrested Development's Michael Cera takes This Is Our Youth to Broadway
Revival of Kenneth Lonergan's 1996 play will also feature Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson, with music from Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij
February 2014
Shortcuts
Six teens who prove they can do anything
Sam Wolfson: Teenagers get a bad press, so here to redress the balance are half-a-dozen who show youth is no obstacle to success
October 2013
How young heroines helped redefine girlhood as a state of strength
Malala is one of a number of girls being idolised by adults – following a change parallel to the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s
August 2013
Australia culture blog
Melbourne writers festival 2013: 10 ways to revel in a literary celebration
This year's highlights include Tavi Gevinson, unscripted late nights, the London Review of Books and Boris Johnson
