114. READ.LOOK.THINK.

READ: “Then comes a day when you see a ‘woman’ who is buying tampons and you think of her as a girl. And she is; anyone who has periods is a girl.” | How to pose like a man. | Ben Lerner: on disliking poetry. | Alice Pung: Two cultures and a baby. | … new narrative possibilities in parenthood. | “She read mysteries, weighed herself, threw pebbles in an urn.” | “So I was like, whatever, let me know when you get to 60,000 words in a row, and we’ll get coffee. One (1) cup.” | The hierarchies of an Australian strip club. | Bookmarking the Paris Review interview with Elena Ferrante for when I finally read the Neapolitan novels. (Of course, the more people say they love them the less I can drag myself to catch up, which is why I am only now watching The Sopranos, a decade late.)

LOOK: BBC documentary on Arnold Circus. / Profiles and home tours of Barbican residents. | “Uncover a grave, examine remains and reveal the victim’s identity in this free online course.” / The Met’s slightly creepy and pervy crime museum will soon be accessible to the public. | I came so close to getting our front door painted this colour, but chickened out. | Sunflower seed risotto. | What I wore when…

THINK: The undoing of Ed Miliband and how Labour lost the election. We saw Ed Miliband in Hackney this week. | “Outsider” art: “…a reminder to have the patience not to know everything about what’s inside.” | “The trick of conversation in the Internet age is accommodating the slow pace of others while still moving forward in the vanguard.” | Do you have kids? Do you have plans? Do you have regrets? | Women who fail at joy.