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Adam Aleksic aka “Etymology Nerd” on exactly when ‘rizz’ went from cool to cringe

Plus, an interview with Booker-nominated author Jeet Thayil on his new book, The Elsewhereans

ICYMI: This year’s Booker Prize longlist is out, and it features Indian author Kiran Desai

Inside: No cocktails, no Insta bait, instead, this Hyderabad restaurant is all about the food

Going to a concert alone or skinny-dipping at a public bathhouse in Kazakhstan might help with that

A slew of sequels including Superman, Jurassic World, Final Destination and I Know What You Did Last Summer hit cinemas this year

Inside: Happiness Gretchen's Rubin on how to be happy

Weekend plans: The Bear, Squid Games and F1: The Movie

Inside: Through nine powerful stories, ‘In Transit’ passes the mic to India’s trans folx

A gender-fluid DJ collective and South Asian vinyl gems upped my music cred

Once dismissed as button-mashing escapism, video games are now giving us some of the most watchable, reach-for-the-tissue-box television

No more wading through chapters of meet-cutes and slow burn romance, today’s romance novels are fast, spicy, steamy, and hiding between cutesy cartoon covers