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October 20, 2026·Edition 52

Does this make my brain look big?

Internet Microdoses

Elizabeth Holmes is selling out cinemas. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s three-hour You Can See Everything made $15 million and sold out more than 2,000 showings in its opening weekend. That’s the biggest documentary debut in two decades, excluding music and concert films. Finally, she’s attached to a product that delivers. Cue the black turtlenecks this Halloween →

Tiny lab-grown brains can now tell Braille letters apart. Researchers turned Braille letters into electrical signals and fed them to clumps of human brain cells, each smaller than a millimeter. One clump got 61% right, while three working together got 83%. Sometimes you really do just need to rub a couple of brain cells together. Meet the brains in a dish →

The world's new contender just turned up near Turkey. The boat rotted away long ago, but divers found more than 30 clay jars and three stone anchors from up to 4,700 years ago, when Egypt's first pyramids were going up. Some jars still held residue, likely olive oil or wine. Dive in →

Arsenal’s font took four years to design. With tens of millions of fans, designer David Rudnick thought the football club deserved a hype-worthy typeface. He hand-drew Rocastle, a spiky Old English font named after the legendary David Rocastle, for everything from jerseys to fashion collabs. The G alone took about 2,000 redraws. What a G →

France’s protests have reached the Louvre. Students from the École du Louvre blocked the museum’s entrance on Monday, joining nationwide demonstrations over the cost of living. What started as demands for better school conditions has brought roughly half a million people into the streets across France. Behind the blockade →

Maine has its own Sistine Chapel. From the outside, the South Solon Meeting House is a plain white New England church. Inside, nearly every wall is covered in 1950s frescoes, including a Great Flood modeled on Michelangelo's. Let yourself in →

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Aesthetic Study

Turning the page

Now more than ever, books are props. Last year, the internet couldn't stop arguing about "performative reading" on the subway and at the bar, as if doomscrolling were better. Coach and Penguin Random House turned real books into bag charms. Alix Earle told Interview she’d never read a book, then offered “maybe Dr. Seuss.” The internet didn’t like that. Apparently, there’s a wrong way not to read, too.

In a 2025 Gallup survey, 43% of Gen Z students said they rarely or never read for fun.

Yes, the book is having a great year, even if no one's reading it.

For its latest show in Paris, Valentino asked guests to bring a book. The runway ran through a library, and the collection was called Antibiblioteca, named for Umberto Eco's "antilibrary." That's the theory that the books you haven't read are worth more than the ones you have. Good news for anyone with a massive to-read stack on their nightstand.

A few days before Architectural Digest came to film her home, Ashley Tisdale's bookshelves were empty. She sent her husband out to buy 400 books. When people got mad, she said any interior designer would have done the same. The Strand backs her up: it sells books by the foot, by color, and for rent. Gwyneth Paltrow pays a professional to pick hers.

The runways are just as literary. Es Devlin's Design Museum retrospective ends with more than 2,000 books on a rotating shelf, sorted by color. Miu Miu sent Olivia Colman out as a librarian on her way to gym class.

Valentino's designer, Alessandro Michele, says clothes don't need to be worn to mean something. Apparently books don't need to be read, either. On a shelf, an unopened copy of Beloved says the same thing as a dog-eared one. At least Valentino's books get a happy ending. After the show, they went to public libraries, where someone just might actually read one. Or at least mean to get around to it.

  • Valentino's library of books nobody's read
  • Ashley Tisdale's 400 emergency books
  • Is it reading if everyone's watching?
  • Books, sold by the foot
  • Gwyneth Paltrow's personal book curator
  • Es Devlin's 2,000-book carousel
  • Miu Miu's librarians on sports day
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October 20, 2026·Interview

Drew Michael Scott

Lone Fox’s own on vintage finds, trusting his eye, and opening a store against advice.

Drew Michael Scott
Drew Michael Scott

A moment with

Drew Michael Scott

Lone Fox’s own on vintage finds, trusting his eye, and opening a store against advice.

Drew Michael Scott wants your home to look like you found every object in it yourself. The Lone Fox founder fills rooms with vintage pieces, old design books, and objects with a past, mixing eras until a space feels complete. His third collection with Joon Loloi just launched. This time he went with his gut: animal print, patchwork, borders, and a little Gothic, which he thinks will surprise people. Here, he shares the Parma vintage market that inspires him, the Fortuny lamps he can't stop researching, and the advice he proudly ignored about opening a store.

Can you tell us more about your creative process?

My creative process is really about finding inspiration in unexpected places and allowing myself to experiment. I’m drawn to vintage pieces, old design books, and objects with history because they bring a sense of character and individuality that you can’t always find in something new. I love mixing different eras, textures, and styles to create something that feels collected rather than overly designed. I also think it’s important to trust your own eye and not get too caught up in trends. My style has evolved so much over the years, and some of my best ideas come from being open to where the process takes me!

Three places you’ve felt inspired by. (City, space, park, museum, restaurant, corner store, club)

  1. Printemps in New York City.
  2. Stockholm, Sweden: there’s so much inspiration in the architecture, and Swedish design is some of my favorite.
  3. The vintage market Mercanteinfiera in Parma, Italy.

What’s an item you can’t live without?

A hat because I don’t like to do my hair every day!

What song are you listening to on repeat?

I’ve really been loving Slayyyter's and Remi Wolf's new albums!

What can't you stop thinking about and why?

I’ve been doing a lot of research on Fortuny fabric and lights. The craftsmanship is so interesting, and I love the elevation it adds to the space.

Who is your forever inspo?

Kelly Wearstler: she’s been able to create an empire and has such individual style. I love her fashion and interiors. It’s inspiring how she scaled her business and has become such a household name.

Write us a fortune cookie.

You’re the only one who can make yourself into something.

Follow Drew on Instagram here.

Object Love

Hard Candies

Hard Candies

Sasha Gordon's Hard Candies (2026) is a portrait of a green woman admiring a translucent paperweight. Gordon builds her paintings from thin, translucent layers of oil, so the skin glows. She graduated from RISD in 2020. Her work is now in The Broad’s collection, and David Zwirner began co-representing her in 2024. Hard Candies hangs in Nocturnal at Zwirner Hong Kong through November 14.

Gordon often paints herself, using her body as what Zwirner calls "a kind of unorthodox avatar." Hard Candies is a rare exception: the sitter is someone else, peering into a crystal paperweight that belonged to Gordon's grandmother: a glass egg holding a tiny garden of red caps, orange toadstools, and a teal flower. It's an object inside a painting about loving an object.

Look closely, and she's doing exactly what you're doing right now.

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Community Question

Last week we asked: if you opened a tiny museum, what would be in it?

Here's our favorite reply:

Arne said: “I would fill my tiny museum with the weird little contraptions people build to make things work again temporarily (or even longer) until the handyman arrives. I am saying hoses taped together with duct tape or raindrops feeding in old recycling bins.”

Now for next week: What’s an object in your home that needs a backstory?

All booked up,

Tania