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Isabel Brooks

Isabel Brooks

The Guardian

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The hill I will die on: Let me tell you the one big problem with art galleries. There’s too much art

Visiting an art gallery always goes the same way for me. I look at one artwork. I look at the next artwork. And then the next. What was the first one...

30.05.2026 20

The Guardian

Isabel Brooks

I’m a young woman, and people keep telling me the internet has ruined my brain. Is this helpful?

Recently I read Girls®, a new book seeking to explore the problems posed by digital and social media to young women’s mental health. It has been...

26.03.2026 30

The Guardian

Isabel Brooks

Now that phones alter our photos without us knowing, how do we know what’s real?

23.12.2025 30

The Guardian

Isabel Brooks

Most of gen Z watch TV with the subtitles on – and I understand why

27.09.2025 30

The Guardian

Isabel Brooks

Why am I filled with nostalgia for a pre-internet age I never knew?

31.05.2025 40

The Guardian

Isabel Brooks

We may be ‘the healthiest generation ever’, but as I work out I wonder ... would I be happier at the pub?

27.04.2025 20

The Guardian

Isabel Brooks