During a recent interview for a literary position, someone asked me a question I wasn't expecting;"How do psychology and literature work together?" I answered honestly. "They don't." At least, not intentionally. I wasn't one of those people who built a perfectly curated personal brand where every interest feeds into the next. I studied psychology because I wanted to understand people. I minored in creative writing because I loved stories. I wasn't trying to become the poster

Doit aimer les chiens II Thank god I finally figured out how to get Netflix to work so it’s not dubbed in French. I like it when it’s in English, but has French subtitles. It makes me feel like I am learning. I get a notification on WhatsApp from the guy I met at the dog park, DPB, asking if I wanted to go for a dog walk on Tuesday. Yes, of course I do. I’m half-watching Pop Star Academy. I think about how motivated these girls are. I’ve always felt I have some kind of cei

Have celebrities lost their personalities, or have they just learned to conceal them? I feel it has become too easy to blame everything on our contemporary age, to say art is not what it was before, but is that actually true? Do artists really have nothing left to say? I find that hard to believe. We shouldn’t blame the artists themselves, but a force much bigger than them. Think back to Jim Morrison, and it is clear what a stage presence used to look like. He didn't treat th

The other day, at 1 AM, my neighbour and I got out of two different cars at exactly the same time. We're the same age. She was holding her baby, and I was holding my vintage Isabel Marant bag. I was in heels, a tiny top, a leather jacket, and just tipsy enough to think the night wasn't over yet. She looked exhausted. I looked like I'd just left a party. We walked to the lift together. Neither of us said much, even though our apartment doors face each other. When we reached th

When traditional milestones disappear, one ceremony is carrying the weight of all of them. Last year, influencer Jazz Smith live-vlogged her entire wedding. She reportedly worked from a detailed content spreadsheet, posted around sixty videos over the course of the weekend, and gained more than 100,000 new followers in the process. The wedding wasn't documented because it mattered. It mattered because it became content. Stories like hers are becoming increasingly familiar. We

Before he was designing championship rings, custom pieces for A$AP Rocky and Michael Jackson, or building one of the most influential jewellery houses in America, Jason Arasheben was a law student walking into nail salons with a bag of hair accessories, hoping someone would say yes. Most didn't. It didn't matter. For the man now known as Jason of Beverly Hills, rejection became the foundation of everything that followed. In conversation with Roe, he discusses immigration, ent

The Odyssey has been everywhere over the past few weeks. On every feed, in every group conversation, and somewhere in the middle of all that noise, I found myself thinking about something I'd genuinely never considered before about cinema. Not about the story, but about its format. Nolan shot the whole thing on IMAX 70mm, a first for a feature film. That's obviously historic and impressive, except the way he intended you to see it exists in only 41 theatres on the entire plan

I met this guy. A lovely guy. The sort of guy you start imagining a future with. He's charming, funny, kind, caring... the list goes on. And from my perspective, it would seem as though the interest is mutual. He initiated plans for our first holiday together, extended the invitation for me to meet his family, and has even expressed how much he likes my mother. On paper, you might conclude that perhaps we're dating. Maybe even in a healthy relationship. You and I would both b

The fashion and wellness habits of 2000s magazines are back in force, pressuring women to be unnaturally thin and to use Botox to battle the visible signs of ageing. These standards have reappeared after almost a decade of the industry becoming more inclusive and kinder to both models and consumers. So why are intelligent and successful women now going to such lengths to look much younger than they are, and can something be done about it? Comedian Nikki Glaser, 42, makes a po