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As DOGE stutters, all that remains is cringe

Department of Gargantuan Egos — With tensions splintering the American right and contemporary rap’s biggest feud continuing to make headlines, newsletter columnist Emma Garland explains how fragile male egos stand at the core of it all.

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Are we steamrolling towards the apocalypse?

One second closer to midnight — While the rolling news cycle, intensifying climate crisis and rapidly advancing technology can make it feel as if the end days are upon us, newsletter columnist Emma Garland remembers that things have always been terrible, and that is a natural part of human life.

  • Culture
  • Emma Garland

Why did 2024 feel so unreal?

Unrest & Stagnation — With unending mind-boggling news stories, the past 12 months have felt like a spiral into insanity. Is AI to blame or a hangover from the pandemic? Newsletter columnist Emma Garland digests the mess.

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  • Emma Garland

Have capitalists killed the internet?

At the start of the century, the internet was an escape from reality. Now, reality is an escape from the internet writes Huck Newsletter columnist Emma Garland.

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  • Emma Garland

Did we create a generation of prudes?

Has the crushing of ‘teen’ entertainment and our failure to represent the full breadth of adolescent experience produced generation Zzz? Emma Garland investigates.

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  • Emma Garland

In defence of Chappell Roan

Newsletter columnist Emma Garland takes on The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess and the changing nature of fame.

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  • Emma Garland

This summer taught us everything is... marketing

Months of historic political violence, memes, auras, and, of course, ‘brat’ has newsletter columnist Emma Garland asking if anything is real anymore?

  • Culture
  • Emma Garland

The Uncanny Valley: Huck’s April Newsletter

Emma Garland reflects on what we can learn from this years’ edition of Coachella festival – the canary in the coal mine of US pop culture.

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  • Emma Garland

The same old story? Huck’s March Newsletter

Emma Garland welcomes the long overdue return of original storytelling - and perhaps the death of the endless sequel and reboot era.

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  • Emma Garland

With love in your heart and skin in the game: Huck’s February 2024 Newsletter

Emma Garland attempts to navigate the cognitive dissonance of the Super Bowl backgrounded by Israel’s never-ending assault on Gaza.

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  • Emma Garland

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