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Pure magic at The Only True Protest Is Beauty at the new @fondazionedriesvannoten in Venice ✨

Ciao Venice 🌊

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I interviewed Ben Lerner about Transcription for @anothermagazine . He spoke about why novels are great vehicles for art criticism, his thoughts on AI, and how parenting has changed his life and work 🤳🏻 Transcription opens with a simple yet mortifying premise: an interview that fails to record. Clocking in at just 144 pages, this slender novel packs a lot in: meditations on art and artificiality, how technology is changing the nature of humanity, and how we care for each other in the face of global disaster. It is also the author’s most moving novel yet, with a tender message about human frailty at its core that lingers long after the book’s end.   “I feel like novels have to be distant from the technologies they comment on, so I don’t think we’re going to learn about what the novel can say about AI if the novel just becomes written by an AI. It has to be more like: what can the novel capture about how AI starts to enter the texture of our lives?,” he says. “I’m sure there will be interesting works made out of the curation of large language models, but I haven’t seen them yet. I am primarily interested in writing written by humans with a heartbeat.”  📸 @beowulfsheehan

Recent meals 🍽️

I had the great pleasure of interviewing one of my favourite authors, Mieko Kawakami, about her new novel Sisters in Yellow for @anothermagazine 🍋 The Breasts and Eggs author speaks about Tokyo nightlife, her thoughts on being labelled a feminist author, and the purpose of literature. “Literature doesn’t have the same effect or function as politics, journalism, or medicine does. Cliché expressions offer no answer to this vast despair and mystery that is life,” she says. “But literature – whether we encounter it when we have the strength and capacity, or whether we read in the midst of our despair – can contain something that might serve as a guiding light, or joy, or letting go, or understanding itself. I want readers to feel that something. To try to create that moment is why I write.” Photography by Takeshi Shinto, styling by Saori Iguchi

Some of my favourite articles we’ve published on @anothermagazine in the last few months ❤️ Ocean Vuong, Sterling Ruby, Bella Freud, Don McCullin, Gus Van Sant, Collier Schorr, Roger Deakin, Rose Wylie & more. Thanks to our amazing writers

Dinner at @chevaldorparis 🕯️

I wrote about @roeethridge for the Spring/Summer 2026 issue of @anothermagazine For almost three decades, Roe Ethridge has moved fluidly between fashion and fine art photography, shooting high-octane campaigns for brands including Balenciaga and staging conceptual exhibitions around the world. Across playful portraits, fashion editorials and intimate snapshots from his everyday life, the hyperreal gloss of the American photographer’s digital images is often marred by imperfection: an early self-portrait with a black eye, a still life of fruit transforming into ashen mounds of furry mould. His latest show and book, Rude in the Good Way, pushes his provocative visual experiments further, with Lindsay Lohan in a set-designed spoof of Miami, photographs of John Currin’s pornographic paintings from the early 2000s, and erotic portraits of Ethridge’s partner and collaborator, Lulu Sylbert. Photo of Roe by @mark_peckmezian . Photo of Pam by @collierschorrstudio , styled by @rebeccaperlmutar

Paris 💜

I wrote about @ceciliebahnsen ’s Autumn/Winter 2026 show, titled Practice 💗 This season, Bahnsen cast her eye to the world of dance, enlisting ex-La Horde dancer Myrto Georgiadi – who first walked for the brand in 2024 – and a crew of street cast dancers from Marseille as key creative collaborators on both the choreography of the show and the collection itself. “I love collaborating with different female creatives and seeing how they express themselves,” says Bahnsen, who designed her new collection with the beauty and practical physical needs of dancers in mind. “There’s a true femininity in dance that I wanted to embrace.” Read the feature on @anothermagazine , with photography by @paulphung . Huge thanks to @brogan_clephan