Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: ‘It is, strangely, acceptable to mock and demonise teenagers’
The neuroscientist, who has written a book on the teenage brain, on the turmoil of adolescence and whether mindfulness can help
The Darkest Web: exploring the ugly world of illegal online marketplaces
Eileen Ormsby was threatened with violence when she reported a hitmen-for-hire scam. Now the Australian writer goes even deeper into the dark web
Call Me By Monet: how Instagram hybrids turned pop into art
High art and pop culture have often been mashed together – but rarely as effectively as on three Instagram accounts delighting fans of Monet, Alexa Chung and Harry Potter
Deferred gratification is dead? Tell that to fans of serialised novels
A growing number of readers are rediscovering the delicious agony of waiting, writes novelist Stephanie Merritt
Home entertainment spending overtakes print sales for first time
UK music, video and games sales higher than those of magazines, books and newspapers last year
Madrid names street after female inventor of mechanical ‘ebook’
Ángela Ruiz Robles came up with ‘mechanical, electric and air-pressure driven method for reading’ in 1949
What’s the difference between a troll and a sockpuppet?
Word of the week: Moscow’s Internet Research Agency paid ‘trolls’ to express pro-Putin and pro-Trump views – but why do we call them that?
Ebooks are not ‘stupid’ – they’re a revolution
The head of publisher Hachette has claimed ebooks are a failure – but as an author and a reader, they’ve completely changed my life
Can chickpeas prolong orgasm? Yes – but only in LiarTown
It’s the satirical powerhouse for the fake news era. LiarTown’s creator Sean Tejaratchi tells us how he dreamt up cooking with tears, angry cow stamps – and that old Smiths classic Lovely Gary
Profile review – Skyping-with-Isis thriller dials up the suspense
Timur Bekmambetov’s film about a journalist investigating women online being lured to Syria is silly but effective
How the fallout from Mary Beard’s Oxfam tweet shines a light on genteel racism
Another ‘mouthy woman’ has called out the classicist’s comments on the Haiti scandal. But the respectful exchange that followed has been heartening
Claws out: how Black Panther fought off a toxic Ghostbusters-style online campaign
The pushback against an attempt to lower the superhero movie’s score on Rotten Tomatoes has show that culture war’s latest battleground is still raging
Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing the World by Snigdha Poonam – review
A perceptive account of the challenges India faces in dealing with the aspirations of its growing young population
Built by Roma Agrawal review – the secret lives of structures
A chatty unravelling of surprising stories behind our built environment by the engineer and campaigner for women in engineering
Feel the earth move: images of Istanbul bend time and space
A childhood love of science fiction gave photographer Aydın Büyüktaş a new lens through which to view the Turkish city