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Vol. 1 · The Odyssey: The Long Way Home● New Friday

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Contents

The Odyssey · Vol. 1

IThe man who couldn't get home4 min
IIThe lesser temptations5 min
IIIThe Cyclops, and a hero's one mistake4 min
IVCirce, and the year that vanished4 min
VA conversation with the dead5 min
VIThe song you can't survive4 min
VIIBetween the monster and the whirlpool4 min

PrimerConsideredLong Read

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Contents

The Odyssey · Vol. 1

IThe man who couldn't get home4 min
IIThe lesser temptations5 min
IIIThe Cyclops, and a hero's one mistake4 min
IVCirce, and the year that vanished4 min
VA conversation with the dead5 min
VIThe song you can't survive4 min
VIIBetween the monster and the whirlpool4 min

PrimerConsideredLong Read

Chapters stay five minutes. Depth adds chapters, never length.

The quiz

Your turn

Homer opens the poem with a plea, not a hero. To whom is the Odyssey's very first line addressed?

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Your turn

Homer opens the poem with a plea, not a hero. To whom is the Odyssey's very first line addressed?

A question mid-chapter catches what slipped past.

The Sunday letter

the sunday letter · 14 june

← Past lettersNo. 24 · Auteur

Dear Dua,

Five evenings, four chapters closed — and polytropos stopped being a word and became a man: Odysseus, of many turns. One more slipped you Thursday. We’ll come to it.

The Week in Numbers

evenings
you came

issues
in hand

chapters
closed

Every one of these is training your eye · No. 24

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the sunday letter · 14 june

← Past lettersNo. 24 · Auteur

Dear Dua,

Five evenings, four chapters closed — and polytropos stopped being a word and became a man: Odysseus, of many turns. One more slipped you Thursday. We’ll come to it.

The Week in Numbers

evenings
you came

issues
in hand

chapters
closed

Every one of these is training your eye · No. 24

Every Sunday, a letter of what you read — so it stays.

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House Issues are written and edited by our editors before they go to press. Issues you ask for are drafted for you — built on real, credited artworks, never invented ones.

What exactly is an Issue?

A course in the shape of a magazine. Every chapter stays a five-minute read; you choose how many chapters deep it goes.

Is the artwork AI-generated?

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Questions from your chapters return days later, spaced so they stick. Every Sunday, a letter reviews your week.

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Who writes the Issues?

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