The Parlour · The desk recommends
A canon and a shelf: the secondary literature the register was built from, including the scholarship that would correct it on the cases involving real people.
By Constance Tally
The Parlour
Fifty-four filings from the cinema, the shelf, the stage and the schedules, on what to do when something has moved in that was not on the lease, and whom to call.
By Casimir Vane
The Parlour
A reading list rather than an argument. Eight filings from the register that between them predict most of the rest, and the secondary literature the register was built from — including the book it went to for the bedsheet and came back from empty-handed.
By Constance Tally
Domestic Affairs
It costs a good deal more than peanuts, and the Peanuts are the only reason to pay it.
By Hollis Carver
The Parlour
A hundred and thirty-seven filings from the cinema, the shelf, the stage and the schedules, sorted by when the events claim to have happened rather than by when somebody got round to printing them — an arrangement in which you can watch the rules get invented, which is the only genuinely gripping thing about my own paperwork.
By Casimir Vane
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
From the Editor's Desk
Every other problem in the house yields to owning less. One does not. We checked it against the definition of Hell and regret the match.
By The Editor
Diversions · Puzzle of the Day
A grid with no blocked squares at all. Every letter is checked in both directions, and the across and down answers are the same words, which halves the work.
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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.
