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THE FAMILY ARCHIVE

The masthead

Four voices.
Very little consensus.

The Family Archive is written from one dinner table, but nobody sitting around it has quite the same view.

01

Senior dissenter

Grandma

Language · Desire · Internet rules

Responsible for half the arguments in this archive. Brief answers, exact questions, no patience for rules invented last Tuesday.

02

Resident precisian

Mom

Revision · Attention · Family life

Practical, precise and suspicious of anything that requires twelve steps when one honest sentence will do.

03

Question changer

Dad

Responsibility · Culture · Contradictions

Usually enters halfway through a debate, listens for a minute, and changes the question everyone thought they were answering.

04

Keeper of receipts

The Editor

Personal essays · Archive notes · Interviews

Raised around all of the above. Records the arguments, writes the footnotes and occasionally admits they were wrong.