Domestic Affairs · By Design
The dent behind the door is not an accident of use. It is the predictable output of hanging a swinging slab beside a fixed obstacle and shipping it without a stop.
By Hollis Carver
The Kitchen Desk
The second meal is cheaper, faster, and better, but only if you design it into the first one tonight, while the oven is already hot.
By R. Dunmore
Domestic Affairs
The scald when someone flushes is not a quirk of old pipes. It is an unregulated pressure split, and it has a standard part number.
By M. Plumb
Domestic Affairs
It costs a good deal more than peanuts, and the Peanuts are the only reason to pay it.
By Hollis Carver
From the Editor's Desk
We do not cover what is new. We cover what was always true and somehow never written down. This is a policy, not an oversight.
By The Editor
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.
By Constance Tally
The Kitchen Desk
Stock is not a recipe. It is the refusal to throw out the parts of dinner that still have a job to do.
By R. Dunmore
Diversions · Puzzle of the Day
Trace a path from START to EXIT. Difficulty: Gentle. Pen, not pencil — we believe in you.
Attempt it →
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.
