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Charli XCX | Charli's Substack | 20th November 2025 The architect of "brat summer" has a newsletter. There are great things about being a pop star, she says — you get to wear earrings so valuable they have their own security guards and you can call in sick whenever you want. The less good aspects include the mockery of old friends and all the time spent in "strange and soulless liminal spaces". And the more successful you are, the more paranoid you become (1,800 words) Nomido is the Browser's daily word game. Play today's before it's gone! Harriet Armstrong | Granta | 21st November 2025 Towards a semiotics of the ubiquitous abbreviation "lol". It's short for "laughing out loud" but can mean something quite dark. "Like an exclamation mark, which adds something jovial and upbeat, ‘lol’ indicates that a sentence should be taken less seriously — but this often feels like a sort of mutually understood but unacknowledged mask. Often ‘lol’ conveys a near-explicit desperation to connect" (1,000 words) Looking for the perfect gift? Give a Browser subscription, and delight someone daily with five outstanding articles to read. Caroline Crampton, Editor-In-Chief; Robert Cottrell, Founding Editor; Kaamya Sharma, Editor; Sylvia Bishop, Assistant Publisher; Jodi Ettenberg, Associate Editor; Uri Bram, CEO & Publisher; Al Breach, Founding Director Editorial comments and letters to the editor: editor@thebrowser.com | Technical issues and support requests: support@thebrowser.com | Or write at any time to the publisher: uri@thebrowser.com Proudly published with Ghost, the fiercely independent website and newsletter platform
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