5 Things to Read: Weeks of October 11 & 18
Nostalgic tween clothing, Hitman Bang, and seven ways to love better.
Good news for nostalgic millennials: Limited Too is coming back. I remember being utterly entranced with the store as a wide-eyed tween visiting America, so this unearths some buried memories for me.
The NYT series Modern Love celebrates 20 years (that’s three years before the iPhone came out!) this month. Its editor reflects and distills what he’s learned from editing the series into seven ways to love better.
I recently wrote about the good and the ugly of Pop Star Academy, the docuseries behind the global girl group Katseye. This New Yorker profile of Bang Si-Hyuk, the producer behind Katseye and mega-famous K-pop groups like BTS (also whose nickname is, hilariously, Hitman Bang), offers an in-depth exploration of the over-optimized business of monetizing fandom. It all seems… exhausting.
Not something to read, but this video about the hidden costs of going to jail was well-made and informative.
I tried using the Oura ring for about a month after my partner decided he no longer got much use out of his. It was cool and served as a good motivator to sneak in more activity, but I ended up ditching it for the same reason. An interesting look at why the Oura ring has a cult following.