Today we are talking about the transition from childhood to adulthood, that stretch that many people yearn for or cannot bear to lose. We deal with the youth of bell hooks and their search for love, family sitcoms and childhood love. But we also talk about youth in its less idyllic dimension: the insatiable search for youth as erotic pleasure that never subsides in Annie Ernaux, why Boris Johnson is a real cretin and that there are too many people pretending to be young when they are not.
