Diversions · Diversions · The Strip
The paper's first comic strip. It is silent, it is weekly, and it concerns a routine municipal inspection. We are told it has an ending. We have chosen to trust the process.
By The Editor
The Parlour
Sixty-three filings from a Roman letter, a London courtroom, a rapping in New York State and a Pixar permit office, sorted by when the events claim to have happened — a record in which the one party I cannot serve notice on turns out to keep better appointments than I do.
By Casimir Vane
Domestic Affairs
Owning the right number of socks is not a personality. It is a buffer calculation, and it fits on one line.
By Iris Petty
The Kitchen Desk
Water boils cooler as you climb, so the seven minutes that produced a hard egg at the trailhead produces a raw one at the summit. The pot is not the problem. The sky is.
By R. Dunmore
Domestic Affairs
Portland General Electric's residential customers used 20% less electricity in 2024 than in 2000 and paid 141% more for it. The appliances worked. The savings were collected by the unit price.
By Hollis Carver
Domestic Affairs
The musty note in the bathroom is not a nuisance to mask. It is an early-warning chemical signal, and your nose is absurdly good at reading it.
By Vera Stipple
Domestic Affairs
The small, fast, agile thing working your bush is almost certainly a bee, just not one of the two you grew up naming. A field key for the other nineteen thousand species.
By Wren Marsh
Diversions · Puzzle of the Day
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The Sections
What the household owns, cleans, stocks, repairs, and shares its premises with.
Food, cooking, and provisioning meals that continue tomorrow.
What the household reads and watches, listed rather than reviewed, and kept here all year: the registers, the tens and the family files.
The puzzles page, and the strip. Sincerely presented. Quietly impossible.
Notes on the edition, and notices from the paper.
