For this year’s Memorie d’Archivio—a heritage capsule collection that reimagines beloved designs from Pomellato’s storied archives—the Italian fine-jewelry house has unveiled the exquisite Moneta Orientale. Inspired by the house’s 1990s gold-coin pendant, the new collection features 33 gemstone-and-pavé combinations, each with its own symbolic appeal. Designed as modern-day good-luck charms, the rose-gold pendants feature a circle surrounding a square, an ancient symbol of harmony between heaven and earth, fortune and stability. (pomellato.com) —Jimena Elmufdi
watch
Carnival of Souls
Herk Harvey’s only narrative feature film is an atmospheric and macabre indie masterpiece, exploring emotional distance and leaving the audience wishing its director was more than a one-hit wonder. Traumatized after being the sole survivor of a car crash, Mary (Candace Hilligoss) abruptly leaves her small town in Kansas for a job as a church organist in Utah. While driving past an abandoned lakeside pavilion en route, Mary sees an apparition of a fiendish man (Harvey). As she attempts to settle into her boardinghouse and new job, she cannot escape the man haunting her. Stuck between reality and a ghost world, this psychological horror film examines notions of purgatory, anxiety, and human connection. Carnival of Souls’ solely organ soundtrack is a surreal and reverent accompaniment to Hilligoss’s scream-queen-worthy performance, while Harvey’s industrial sensibilities provide cinematic tangibility that ground this waking dream into a fractured and horrific reality. (apple.com) —Eve Eismann
shoot
Leica x Formula 1
Fresh off the United States Grand Prix in Austin, with Las Vegas still to come, Leica has unveiled its first official partnership with Formula 1: a limited-edition Q3 43 camera, complete with carbon-fiber accents, red controls, and a textured grip inspired by racing equipment. With its 60-megapixel sensor and 43-mm. lens, it’s the ideal gift for the true F1 aficionado—especially considering Lewis Hamilton, Daniel Ricciardo, and Lando Norris have all been spotted bringing their own Leicas to the races. Lights out, flash on, and away we go! ($9,950; leica-camera.com) —Gabriella Maestri
look
Joy
One of the first sentences in multi-disciplinary artist Maira Kalman’s latest book, Joy—“Suffering and sorrow envelop our planet and our little lives”—seems at odds with the book’s title, but this contrast is intentional. Kalman delivers her trademark blend of wisdom, acerbity, and awe in this beautifully rendered collection of poetry, prose, and photography. Inside, stunningly vivid portraits of people from Virginia Woolf and Claude Debussy to James Baldwin—all of whom offered delight in their work despite their own experiences with devastation—are placed next to passages from Kalman’s own memories. Joy offers a peak into the extraordinary ability of any of us to go on despite hardships, and the magic that arises from our attempting to do just that. “Oh, what people do,” Kalman writes, almost entranced. Indeed. ($36.00, harpercollins.com) —Eve Bromberg
buy
The Complete Kubrick
“Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop,” Martin Scorsese once said. “You look up and wonder, How could anyone have climbed that high?” Stanley Kubrick, the indomitable master of cinema, captured epics on celluloid with painstaking precision. He made Tom Cruise walk through a door 95 times in Eyes Wide Shut, and a scene from The Shining holds the Guinness World Record for the most takes of a single scene with dialogue (148). That obsessive nature resulted in an oeuvre like no other, one that investigates society’s evils across outer space, the Vietnam War, and a dystopian, neo-futuristic Swinging London. For the first time ever, a new boxed set immortalizes Kubrick’s entire legacy with a 30-disc collection of 13 feature films, three shorts, and a treasure trove of interviews and a documentary by Vivian, the director’s daughter. I know what I’m asking for this Christmas. ($479.96, criterion.com) —Maggie Turner
read
Hotel & Farm
Ben Katchor calls himself a cartoonist, but what I call him is a novelist of heartbreaking brilliance whose graphic novels, most famously Julius Knipl: Real Estate Photographer, create worlds of anger, failure, and deceit, the American Dream turned into local nightmare. Hotel & Farm is his latest graphic novel, featuring the unlikely juxtaposition of tales from agriculture and hotel culture. There is the popularity of personal manure pits, atrium lagoons nourished by a hotel’s dirty bathwater, the crisis that arises from folks keeping their ornamental gourds for too long—thus imperiling squash farmers who need to keep their product moving—and gratuity envelopes in hotel rooms that are poorly cleaned. (Solution: seal the envelope without placing any tip in it.) Absurdities abound in Katchor’s work, delivered with a sharp wit and always reminding us of our humanity. ($32, penguinrandomhouse.com) —Jim Kelly