Maybe it's the terminology? 'Previous' and 'Next' for pagination feels right, so what about the items? 'Earlier' and 'Later'? 'Prior' and…? I dunno, 'Previous' and 'Next' makes sense there too 😭

'Previous' is the item that was published prior the one you're on, so you're going backwards in time as you go forward through the list. 'Next' is back the way in the list, but forward in time. So it's the opposite of pagination 🙃