After NYC, she moved to village dug underground: fixing 4 caves in 15 years by Kirsten Dirksen on August 30, 2026 After growing up in Manhattan, Thea Carini landed in Bourré – a tiny French stone-mining town with dozens of homes …
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 …
He built dirt-cheap homestead in off-grid village. Sharing tips 20 years on by Kirsten Dirksen on August 23, 2026 He built his off-grid straw bale home for just $15,000, including solar panels and batteries, and 20 years later he’s …
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, …
FDR’s floating White House sank. Descendants spent 15 years restoring it by Kirsten Dirksen on August 16, 2026 The USS Potomac was FDR’s “Floating White House” — the boat where he ran the country, secretly slipped away in …
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 …
Veteran saw collapse abroad. Now builds antifragile family homestead by Kirsten Dirksen on August 10, 2026 For the past 20 years, Josh and Chiara Morris have built a 360-acre homestead in the Missouri Ozarks that today …
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 …
Visionary dad built underground home. Son restored it to former glory by Kirsten Dirksen on August 2, 2026 For decades, Conway worked mostly alone, crafting a one-of-a-kind underground home into a Missouri mountainside — no permits, no architect, …
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 …
