Good morning, welcome to February and to Five Great Reads. It’s your summertime, morning tea wrap of great writing, big ideas and polar bears, spotted through the spyglass by me, Alyx Gorman, Guardian Australia’s lifestyle editor.
As the holiday break period draws to a close, you might be more interested in reading the news as it happens: the live blog is the place for that. Alternatively, you could just ditch work today and spend the next several hours trying to recreate Rihanna’s pregnancy announcement photograph. Who could blame you?
