Issue № 07
Autumn 2026
Contents
Repair
07
What we fix, and what fixing asks of us. Fourteen stories about menders, spare parts and the right to take things apart.
Cover photograph by Hana Sørlie
Back issues
Cover story
Essays
The Honest Screw
Why the humble screw — not glue — decides whether the things we own can be loved for decades.
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From the masthead
An issue is a promise that somebody read every word twice.
— The editors, on why we print four issues a year, not forty posts
In this issue
In motion
Two stories, on film
Most read this quarter
Look closer / A photo essay in every issue / Look closer / A photo essay in every issue / Look closer / A photo essay in every issue / Look closer / A photo essay in every issue /
Field notes in pictures
Letter from the editor
Ines Vallejo
Editor-in-chief
“Repair turns out to be less about objects than about time: who has it, who is paid for it, and who is allowed to open the case.”
Overheard, issue № 07
The city is a machine we all agreed to keep running.
Find your section
01
Essays
Long arguments, slowly made. One idea followed further than is comfortable.
02
Reportage
On the ground, with a notebook and a photographer. The city as it actually works.
03
Interviews
Conversations with people who make, mend and keep things running.
04
Field Notes
Four hundred words from a single walk. Short dispatches from the edges of the city.
05
Objects
One thing, looked at closely until it starts telling stories.
Every cover, side by side
The archive, issue by issue
Meet the contributors / Pitch us a story / Meet the contributors / Pitch us a story / Meet the contributors / Pitch us a story / Meet the contributors / Pitch us a story /
The people in the margins
Ines Vallejo
Editor-in-chief
Tomás Okafor
Reportage editor
Hana Sørlie
Photographer
Priya Raman
Contributing writer
Luuk de Vries
Art director
Mei Tanaka
Interviews
Kwame Asante
Field notes
Aurélie Brun
Objects
Twelve minutes with the editor
Q&A · Ines Vallejo, editor-in-chief
Why print four issues a year instead of forty posts?
Because a repair takes longer than a headline. We spend eleven weeks on an issue: the Rotterdam tool library alone took three visits and a borrowed drill. Readers can feel that time in the paragraphs.
Ines Vallejo
Editor-in-chief
Tomás Okafor
Reportage editor
Hana Sørlie
Photographer
Priya Raman
Contributing writer
Luuk de Vries
Art director
Mei Tanaka
Interviews
Kwame Asante
Field notes
Aurélie Brun
Objects
How an issue is made
Uncoated 100 g/m2, FSC
A warm sheet that takes riso ink like a print quarterly.
Literata + Fragment Mono
One serif for reading, one mono for everything that is not the story.
One spot colour per issue
Issue 07 is Repair red. The next issue picks a new one and keeps it.
12 columns, no exceptions
Every headline, image and note snaps to the same measure.
Eight long reads, four short
Nothing is filler. Each issue closes with a letter from the editor.
05
issues in print since 2024
20
reads, from essays to reportage
08
contributors on the masthead
01
spot ink per issue, never two
Coming winter 2026
Issue № 08 — Heat
Letters to the editors
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