Back in July, Charli XCX tweeted the question: “what is hyperpop?” […] A few minutes after her glib inquiry about the burgeoning pop descriptor, she rejected the label entirely, tweeting: “I do not identify with music genres.” That brief exchange is as good a definition as any for the sound and ethos of hyperpop: a genre tag for distinctly genre-less music.

a work of genius

He put his foot on a concealed button under his desk and rang an alarm bell. He always had two strongarm men lolling around in an office down the passage.

There was, in the splendour of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.