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The Finer Things Journal

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An oil painting of ripe lemons hanging from a leafy branch against a dark background

Objects 31 October 2026

A Lemon Is Never Just a Lemon

A little study in art, poetry, food, fragrance & folklore.

A woman with a red bindi and loose curls, draped in vermilion cloth and lit by warm firelight

Objects 31 October 2026

The Many Lives of Vermilion

One Colour, Centuries of Meaning.

Nora, Arthur and Hae Sung walking together at night in New York, a still from Past Lives

Film 24 September 2026

Past Lives, and the life we didn’t get to live

On Celine Song’s Past Lives, and the two maybes it leaves us with.