India, July 17 -- Staying single. Our next obsession after Dua Lipa: Emily Ratajkowski. She just signed a seven-figure book deal with Penguin. Real fans know how it began; in June, with that unhinged essay about her sex life as a divorced single mom. More horrors are coming via her book (men who are into incest, who can't stop sending nudes, who get turned on by demeaning their partners). If Emily, a supermodel and actor, can't get a date, what hope is there for us normies?

Spinning fictions. Gracie Abrams, whose music only fits in Sad Girl playlists, has said that her safe, stable relationship with Paul Mescal is affecting her moody songwriting aura. OK. But isn't her dad JJ Abrams, who made Lost, and Star Trek and Star Wars movies? Did...