The kore car & the terracotta soap dish: humble objects we attach meaning to by Nicolás Boullosa on September 26, 2026 A 30-second drawing at Back-to-School Night, a ceramics studio, and the broken roof tiles that followed us from Barcelona to …
Harvest by the old calendar: a July vintage, a Roman aqueduct & an ancient vineyard by Nicolás Boullosa on September 19, 2026 One hour south of Barcelona, the grapes come in before the proverbs say to pick, and the ruins along the …
Scandinavian Naturhus: a house inside a house as a fractal for the future by Nicolás Boullosa on September 9, 2026 What kids’ forts, Ron Eglash’s fractal villages, and a Swedish A-frame have in common. “All happy families are alike; each …
Wendell Berry’s 5 generations of lumber: one’s own long-legged home by Nicolás Boullosa on September 3, 2026 Wendell Berry died on Monday at ninety-two, the age he gave the old farmer he invented at thirty-nine. In a …
The first 5 feet: California fire rules around houses face reality by Nicolás Boullosa on August 27, 2026 I went for a run with a friend affected by the fire rules, and this is what I learned while …
A boat Elvis bought, a suitcase of negatives, & the price of memory by Nicolás Boullosa on August 20, 2026 As we accumulate things, analog and digital, it gets easier to lose the battle against entropy. Some things survive anyway, …
Footnotes to an invisible text: summaries can be great, reading is better by Nicolás Boullosa on August 13, 2026 Why do people keep writing, singing, and building for audiences the market can’t see? The answer to this question is …
Competent gentleness: three Cold War engineers who built worlds for their families by Nicolás Boullosa on August 6, 2026 On an Ozark hillside and in the Maine woods, the quiet engineers of the postwar era are leaving, and handing …
Copenhagen in July: notes from a borrowed apartment in the world’s happiest city by Nicolás Boullosa on July 31, 2026 Rankings keep crowning the Danish capital. A few days there recently, sleeping among somebody else’s books, suggested the secret is …
Manufactured homes had to pretend they could move. Not anymore by Nicolás Boullosa on July 25, 2026 A steel chassis has been mandatory in factory-built homes since 1976, but >90% of those homes never move. Section 301 …
