Can a novel fix us? @ed__luker on the bourgeoise desire for self-improvement.

What is style? The summer issue’s Manifesto examines how the stylist – whether on-set or in prose – works to construct new meaning. Photography: @sohrabgol Styling: @carolineissa Hair: @kachikatsuya   Make-up: @jinny_mua using Les Beiges Summer-To-Go and CHANEL Hydra Beauty Micro Crème Yeux  Photography assistant: @fraznn Styling assistant: @eve.bailyy Model: @helo.serafim at Wilhelmina Models Casting: @tytiah

What is style? The summer issue’s Manifesto examines how the stylist – whether on-set or in prose – works to construct new meaning. Photography: @sohrabgol Styling: @carolineissa Hair: @kachikatsuya   Make-up: @jinny_mua using Les Beiges Summer-To-Go and CHANEL Hydra Beauty Micro Crème Yeux  Photography assistant: @fraznn Styling assistant: @eve.bailyy Model: @helo.serafim at Wilhelmina Models Casting: @tytiah

Author of Keats Odes @anahidnersessian speaks to TANK about the erotic and egotistical sublimes, criticism and conning, and Leonard Cohen. #tanksummerreader

Critic and novelist Michael Bracewell speaks to @mattjanney237 about his career as cult documentarian of Middle England and London’s “grotesque economy”. Link in bio.

@louis.b.r goes in pursuit of Moby-Dick and its recent adaptions by Wu Tsang and Amazon Audible in search of the novel’s central metaphor – that of metaphor itself. Link in our bio.

“BookTok criticism rewards the representative and the immediate.” @matteo.p.i.n.i unpacks a new critical infrastructure. Link in bio.

“Stroke of the cane” for #tanksummerreader Photography by @adam_goodison Set design by @imogenfroststudio All bags are Gucci Bamboo 1947 by @gucci

“There’s a real generosity to the way in which an artist’s book allows us to have an artist’s practice on our bookshelves.” Curator and critic @kbellberlin takes us to the heart of the art book, via her personal collection.

The heat shimmers over the runway, and the streets are paved with sillicone. Welcome to Hollywood’s uncanny valley, where, surely, you’re going to be a star… Photography: @pietro_cocco Styling: @teabarbagallo Art direction: @b.benedettaspreafico Hair: @erissonmusella at @blendmanagement Make-up: @elenabettanello at @julianwatsonagency Set design: @steiner_wolinska Production: @mireiiille Photography assistants: @carlo.gerli and @fbafotografia Styling assistant: @alicearchive Make-up assistant: @sara.bergaglio Production assistant: Jean Rayanne Models: @balboablonde at Monster Managament, @wera_kaz at @thelabmodels and @ingasavits at @whynotmodels

How is the news made? Artist @eloisehsir examines how the detritus of physical printworks describes networks of commerce, solidarity and meaning-making.

We asked the art world’s most venerable publishers, editors and artists what, exactly, an art book is for. To read the full range of responses, head to the link in our bio.