The Parlour · From the Desk
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
The Kitchen Desk
It is not caused by how much ice cream you eat. It is caused by how fast, and by where the cold lands. The pain you feel is not happening where you feel it.
By R. Dunmore
Domestic Affairs
Linen bedding spans a twelvefold price range for one fiber. We priced the whole bed three ways, did the per-night arithmetic, and checked what the money actually buys.
By Hollis Carver
The Parlour
Eight rulings graded against the register: the contract is always signed and was enforced without challenge once in four hundred years, the best-known sign is younger than the moon landing, and the one piece of real evidence on file was treated as noise.
By Casimir Vane
The Kitchen Desk
Recipes are written in units the store does not sell. Here is what to do with the difference.
By R. Dunmore
The Parlour
A reading list rather than an argument. Eight filings from the outbreak register that between them predict most of the other forty-five, and the secondary literature behind the first eighty years of it — where the popular sources are the ones to hold at arm's length.
By Constance Tally
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 books that would catch it out.
By Constance Tally
Diversions · Puzzle of the Day
Trace a path from START to EXIT. Difficulty: Gentle. Pen, not pencil — we believe in you.
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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.
