Waterstones has been slammed for naming a 'boring' Japanese murder mystery as its 'Book of the Year' for 2024. As well as winning breakthrough author award at the Books Are My Bag Awards earlier this year, the novel also features in 2024's top 20 translated fiction titles, according to The Guardian. Pictured: Annabel - who boasts 24,000 TikTok followers - …
Neatly aligned glass spice jars tagged with printed white labels. As someone who studies digital consumer culture, I've noticed an uptick in glamorized, stylized and fully stocked pantries on TikTok and Instagram, giving rise to a content genre I dub "pantry porn." Move over food porn — make way for pantry porn Throughout the 2010s, food porn dominated social media. …
