Lykke Li, Fee Steinvorth and Zoe Ghertner on meeting naked in a sauna, calming an overstimulated nervous system, and friendship.

In 1920s Paris, four women stopped waiting for a culture built to include them and built their own instead. Julieta Ruiz recovers the almost-forgotten word for what held them together, matronage, and argues that a century later, as old certainties collapse again, women are once more remaking the world from the ground up rather than asking permission to enter it.