Paul McCartney And Groceries

Ghost Hunting With Paul McCartney

Pete Paphides | 12th June 2026 | U

Music critic and longtime Beatles devotee reviews McCartney's latest album, The Boys Of Dungeon Lane. The music is part of a lifelong project of reexamining old memories for new meanings. "He continues to try. He retraces his steps. He screws his eyes shut. He tries to remember. He asks, 'Of all the people who ever lived, why me?' He reaches out into something that is no longer there" (2,400 words)

Late Stage Groceries

Andrea Hernández | Snaxshot | 11th June 2026 | U

Food has never been more nutritional and less nurturing. The grocery store is the frontier of our "collective brainrot", as companies market everything in terms of its supposed health benefits. "In need of protein — you can have it as candy, see Hershey’s recent hire of a 'Director of protein business', you can also get fibre from cotton candy and collagen from cookies." It's late stage capitalism as sustenance (750 words)