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Issue No. 14 · September 12, 2026
On Leaving the City
I used to think leaving would feel like relief. Instead it felt like packing a house I hadn't finished living in — boxes half-labeled, drawers I meant to sort someday. The city doesn't notice you go. It just keeps ringing its bells at the same hour, indifferent and lovely, the way it always was before you got here.
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On the Nature of a Sunday
There is a particular quality to a Sunday afternoon in early autumn — the light goes horizontal too early, and the whole day feels like it is already remembering itself. I have started keeping a list of things I notice only then.
The way the kettle sounds different when no one else is home. The pile of mail I’ll open on Monday, probably.
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How an issue travels
Issue No. 14 went out on a Friday morning. Here is exactly what happened to it, stop by stop.
Draft
Tue 9:14 AM
First words, on the train
Scheduled
Fri 7:00 AM
Queued for Friday delivery
Delivered
Fri 7:03 AM
1,204 inboxes
Read
Fri 8:41 AM
1,062 opens — 88%
Archive
Every issue Circular has sent, kept exactly as it went out — a table of contents for a journal still being written.
| No. | Title | Date | Open rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | On Leaving the City | Sep 12, 2026 | 88% |
| 13 | What the Garden Taught Me | Sep 5, 2026 | 74% |
| 12 | Notes from a Long Train | Aug 29, 2026 | 81% |
| 11 | The Weight of Unread Books | Aug 22, 2026 | 69% |
| 10 | A Letter to My Younger Self | Aug 15, 2026 | 91% |
| 9 | On Slow Mornings | Aug 8, 2026 | 77% |
| 8 | The Last Days of August | Aug 1, 2026 | 72% |
| 7 | Learning to Say No | Jul 25, 2026 | 80% |
| 6 | What I Carry Now | Jul 18, 2026 | 66% |
| 5 | On Making Things by Hand | Jul 11, 2026 | 84% |
| 4 | A Postcard from Nowhere | Jul 4, 2026 | 70% |
| 3 | Beginning Again | Jun 27, 2026 | 62% |
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