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I’ve been recognizing ladies round city — like the 2 above — carrying short crops and belted coffee-colored coats. Listed below are 4 fairly variations should you’re equally impressed: flowy (and plus), cream, trench, and midi.

In case you missed it, Rihanna’s Tremendous Bowl efficiency was MAGIC, and Justina Miles, the primary deaf girl performer to signal on the half-time present, completely crushed. Feeling buzzy and grateful to exist on this planet similtaneously these feminine legends.

This is perhaps the least horny sentence ever written on Valentine’s Day, however right here goes: I’ve been entering into chickpeas. They’re so scrumptious and straightforward and full of fine stuff, and this easy recipe is changing into an MVP in our home.

Did you learn yesterday’s gorgeous essay by Daisy Alpert Florin? Her debut novel — My Last Innocent Year comes out immediately and provides Normal People vibes. “When the novel opens, Isabel Rosen – an solely youngster, mourning the lack of her mom, with ambitions of changing into a author – is a senior at Wilder School in New Hampshire,” says CoJ contributor Abigail Rasminsky. “The winter earlier than commencement, she finds herself in a classmate’s dorm room. What unfolds between them is difficult to clarify or perceive: Was it consensual? Was it rape? Who decides? Set in 1998, towards the backdrop of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, Florin’s novel completely captures not solely life on a university campus, however the messy, thrilling, sexually- and politically-charged confusions of early maturity.”

P.S. More fun things, and my three favorite books.

(Chickpea dinner picture by Joe Lingeman/the Kitchn.)

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