Archive
From 2019 to 2023, working with dozens of writers around the world, we produced a weekly newsletter featuring stories on topics ranging from neuroaesthetics, to scented bowling balls, to Japanese Noh theater, to the overview affect. We also interviewed various cultural luminaries, including Roxane Gay, Daniel Humm, Christopher John Rogers, Frances Moore Lappé, and John Pawson. Explore our archive below.
![Why You Need to Know About Anosmia](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/3abc327b8bff3ff39295b75c8446af6701a8dce3-518x518.jpg?rect=0,78,518,363&w=710&h=497)
![Waris Ahluwalia on His Buzzy New Tea Brand](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/835679aca3ae6695df2ffe550dc86b19ba90f12c-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Laura Baldassari’s Opera Playlist Is Exactly What We’re Craving Right Now](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/390ec7e753a603916a3efeb9d162a94f9dd683d3-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![This Cheekily Named Toilet Paper Brand Truly Gives a Crap](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/e2b3b38e0782bcd6a86f587639a2a4061cdd8581-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Drummer Billy Martin’s Covid-19 Quarantine Playlist](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/d367f9f68f38e9fe1dd5a138f42c877164525373-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![What the Sun’s Molten Surface Looks Like](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/8cc96e8591db44d3104b5ae865c88c8772a3f786-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Apartment Botanist’s Alessia Resta on Being a “Plant Parent”](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/94b6b0617060d01f11da4575266d41f7155419cb-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![The Cleansing Craze Around Palo Santo](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/b079f356e43fcf55ffe5092f28ccd278d4b80ac3-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![DADA Daily Makes Healthy Snacking Incredibly Appetizing](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/fd3cf9fde3e41a22201c477e725583f63411316b-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Book a Scent Consultation With This 300-Year-Old Fragrance House](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/19d6bea587a2da9f378c987a103facaae76c6878-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![This New Platform Makes Fiction Pulled From Real-News Headlines](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/334f37c3dc968e02107d0f861d42364abc31bc27-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![A Studio 54 Playlist by Brooklyn Museum Curator Matthew Yakobosky](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/4e63392ff3259ac11a891f9faf2cc0c551cde8b3-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,57,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Bjarke Ingels’s Miniature Wooden Panda for Architectmade](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/f444be2013041aee7923cde57259c29c002bc96e-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Fanny Singer’s Ode to Her Legendary Mother, Chez Panisse’s Alice Waters](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/dc9aafff57c59c1264e3d84866eb3be570dd90d2-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Ever Wonder How Cows Co-moo-nicate?](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/954e4eb872f19027da4a6689ea334c18673894eb-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![The Cooper-Hewitt’s Exhibition on Willi Smith Is a Must-See](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/a1a50bea6b5e1683c3b151a63ba0dbc2bc4c12a1-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Michele Promaulayko on Controlling Your Sugar Cravings Through Smell](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/5da7fda83dfcf1587a65a20bb900a824d187c6f1-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![One of Our Favorite Manhattan Restaurants Debuts a Cookbook](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/7ca5b20886a356c2f5f9ade2cf105d1fcc331aa6-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Snow Shimazu’s Air Beautiful Is the Ultimate Jet-Lag Cure](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/4ca85f5cc72a8f2e4b7a527a3553bb3bdc291ea5-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![MIDI 2.0 Expands the Digital Music-Making Toolbox](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/cf9514618cf767dfc58d8644ae3892c1785f6284-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![A Smartphone Alternative We Can Totally Get Behind](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/20ab57c08e29e751d4dd25a572de8f7d3f5135c1-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Fermentation Expert Rich Shih Explains the Particularities of Koji](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/d5efb0363e6b1f28bdd80ca9e5a5e894fe99644a-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Shantell Martin’s Debut Book Follows the Line of Her Life and Workπ](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/9448633aa67bb89f94065db68c65ae8c66be16b1-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Hinoki Is the World’s Absolutely Best-Smelling Wood](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/89f4c16195cf0e746cac11db8ef41625e69f9d29-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![This New Book Unpacks the World of Fragrance](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/9b100eaf96990e1787cbfccc3b51c4a3f7b24575-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Why Every Kitchen Needs a Donabe Pot](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/d35620ddaab8c82c8a5645030358fef7f3ef465c-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Fashion Designer Phillip Lim’s Chill Out Playlist](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/9ff59b8fa4c9aae1274789206587dacffcaa8728-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![How Mushrooms Have Proliferated as a Material for Art-Making](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/54d3ada0facd294fa6c31c7ccfc1560ef4cdffa4-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Neri Oxman’s “Material Ecology” Gets the MoMA Spotlight](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/292111f0bc8544d51fa1665c317dbb808b0ddcd1-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Rem Koolhaas Brings the Country to the City With a Guggenheim Show](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/8c6b0c6d06398645fcbf3a3a626fab70072f3e56-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Be Your Own Masseuse With These Handcrafted Massage Tools](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/91e076226d31aaec076be750e1b8cb262674e62a-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Stefan Sagmeister’s Playlist of David Bryne Cover Songs](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/e79cdbaa046db43c78d8655b1b7a53de75d4d32e-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Makgeolli Gets a Hip Millennial Update](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/50f6d86d6377572f91a2f7e6a2ef028597b73fa2-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Mandy Aftel’s Willy Wonka–Like Wonderland of Curious Scents](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/b64191b2fe68fbb350ed7a51b42f66dd18fb7f02-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Jesse Carmichael of Maroon 5’s Valentine’s Day Playlist](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/fc4901879f91ecd24c8cdc702ffdd7aee81a6a46-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Why Roses Are Synonymous With Love](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/37c3004a796cabf4e151f472e89220ac9e43196f-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![This Mini Magazine Celebrates a Decade of The Gentlewoman](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/80d324305c7828b0c99bd55235c1c0e726447134-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Derrick Adams’s Evocative “Beauty Works” Series](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/a27ab19407e041c45184896226b6bcb11823da83-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Kettl’s Zach Mangan on Identifying Top-Quality Matcha](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/392a742ded422b987f492d3437560f53e8190421-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)
![Chen Chen and Kai Williams on Playing With Food](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/d1b94bda338fec39128e65527667305d2f997343-1080x1080.jpg?rect=0,162,1080,756&w=710&h=497)