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Who keeps it running, and what happens when it stops

September 11, 2026 · 7 pieces

Issue 03

This issue is about upkeep, the unglamorous work that keeps everything else from failing. We rode with a line crew after a storm, sat with a man who has resoled shoes on the same corner for forty years, and asked why the industries that make things are so much better remembered than the ones that keep them going. None of it is dramatic. All of it is why the lights come back on.

Feature (1)

  1. 01Keeping the Lifts RunningTomás Berlanga

Report (2)

  1. 02The Line CrewPriya Raghunathan and Marguerite Oyelaran
  2. 06Painting the BridgeInès Haddad

Interview (2)

  1. 03The ClockmakerJunko Maruyama
  2. 07The Turf KeeperPriya Raghunathan

Dispatch (1)

  1. 04The Last Cobbler on Fen StreetSamuel Okeke

Essay (1)

  1. 05Right to RepairRowan Aldiss