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 …
The man who plants the rain: water harvester Brad Lancaster’s urban oasis by Nicolás Boullosa on July 17, 2026 Thirty years after his first illegal curb cut, a desert neighborhood cools its streets with a million gallons of monsoon …
World Cup, now and then: the windows-down summer, Europoors & the game by Nicolás Boullosa on July 1, 2026 A World Cup in the backyard, a heat wave back home, and the transatlantic quarrel over who gets to be …
The slow way will grow in value: doing the thinking, not the carrying by Nicolás Boullosa on June 25, 2026 The search box was built to send you away. The chatbox is built to keep you. A dispatch on what …
Underground mansion built in ancient cave maze has water spring inside by Kirsten Dirksen on June 21, 2026 Deep in the Arkansas Ozarks, past a flooded creek crossing and down a long limestone driveway, a door opens into …
The shade we gathered in: on losing trees, and what they leave behind by Nicolás Boullosa on June 19, 2026 Two English trees died this year: one loved to death by crowds, one felled by vandals. What their afterlives, and …
