You know that feeling when you’re bored, but you want to describe it in a philosophically complex kind of way? It’s like you’re too jaded to be entertained but too alive to be asleep. It’s not quite ...

You’re reading Infinite Scroll, Kyle Chayka’s weekly column on how technology shapes culture. The breakfast photo is the ur-text of the narcissistic internet, a bit of content that no one else is ...

I’m back after a three-week sabbatical, refreshed and raring to go. I find myself at a crossroads in my career and life, as all the things that previously excited me in my twenties and thirties, about ...

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Angst is the word for fear in German, Dutch, and Danish. It comes from the same Indo-European root (meaning “tight, constricted, painful”) that gave us anguish, anxiety, and anger. In the mid-19th ...

I SENSED a feeling of ennui among many columnists who I regularly read about a year ago. A few months ago, I felt it had taken a more pessimistic tone, and then with the proposed and now signed budget ...

Step inside the heritage-listed space, right by the Capitol Theatre, for a fun drinks list and a menu that’s very French – but also not very French at all. Ennui has just opened in the CBD. It’s a ...

“From birth, I, my family, my life had seemed different, special,” five-time Emmy winner Candice Bergen writes in her 1984 autobiography Knock Wood. “And deep down, despite all my insecurity, I was ...

A two-storey space that’s housed a presbyterian minister, a beehive maker, a blacksmith and a Thai grocer is now the spot for a border-crossing menu with wild wallaby, family-recipe kimchi and ...