Contributing writer
Priya Raman
London
Priya writes essays about technology, domestic life and the objects that sit between them.
Her first book, on the history of kitchen tools, is out next spring.
Stories
Repair
The Honest Screw
Why the humble screw — not glue — decides whether the things we own can be loved for decades.
Night Shift
In Praise of the Server Room Hum
The internet has a sound, and it lives in a converted warehouse in the port.
Borrowed
Against Owning a Drill
An argument for keeping fewer things, and more people, within reach.