Reading order
Northing is published as it is uncovered.
The first work to emerge is The Leaving, a serialized novel released one chapter at a time.
Each Sunday:
A new chapter of The Leaving.
Midweek:
A shorter essay precedes each issue, focused on a question, place, object, or idea it raises.
As chapters are published, this page will become the complete reading guide.
The Leaving
The Bureau | Chapter One - July 5, 2026
The Drawer Liner | Chapter Two - July 12, 2026
The Spring | Chapter Three - July 19, 2026
Helen | Chapter Four - July 26, 2026
The Management Map | Chapter Five - August 2, 2026
The County Register | Chapter Six - August 9, 2026
The Recipe Cards | Chapter Seven - August 16, 2026
The Impoundment | Chapter Eight - August 23, 2026
Lot 17 | Chapter Nine - August 30, 2026
The Jar | Chapter Ten - September 6, 2026
The Bench Traverse | Chapter Eleven - September 13, 2026
The Sale Notice | Chapter Twelve - September 20, 2026
Headwater | Chapter Thirteen - September 27, 2026
The Browse Line | Chapter Fourteen - October 4, 2026
The 1961 Letter | Chapter Fifteen - October 11, 2026
The Tally | Chapter Sixteen - October 18, 2026
The Youngest | Chapter Seventeen - October 25, 2026
The County Register, 1976 | Chapter Eighteen - November 1, 2026
October 1947 | Chapter Nineteen - November 8, 2026
The Bench Stone | Chapter Twenty - November 15, 2026
Put Up Short | Chapter Twenty-One - November 22, 2026
Salem | Chapter Twenty-Two - November 29, 2026
The Discharge Log | Chapter Twenty-Three - December 6, 2026
The Census Thicket | Chapter Twenty-Four - December 13, 2026
The Stoneware Jug | Chapter Twenty-Five - December 20, 2026
The Letter He Keeps | Chapter Twenty-Six - December 27, 2026
The Maintenance Log | Chapter Twenty-Seven - January 3, 2027
The Ridge | Chapter Twenty-Eight - January 10, 2027
The Frost | Chapter Twenty-Nine - January 17, 2027
A Name On No Map | Chapter Thirty - January 24, 2027
The Water-Book | Chapter Thirty-One - January 31, 2027
The Last Ordinary Entries | Chapter Thirty-Two - February 7, 2027
The Record Stops | Chapter Thirty-Three - February 14, 2027
Entombed | Chapter Thirty-Four - February 21, 2027
The Brothers’ Lines | Chapter Thirty-Five - February 28, 2027
Rebecca’s Garden | Chapter Thirty-Six - March 7, 2027
Essex, March | Chapter Thirty-Seven - March 14, 2027
The Spring in Winter | Chapter Thirty-Eight - March 21, 2027
The Abandoned Orchard | Chapter Thirty-Nine - March 28, 2027
Headwater Spring | Chapter Forty - April 4, 2027
Bring a Jar | Chapter Forty-One - April 11, 2027
Northing | Chapter Forty-Two - April 18, 2027
Essays
What the Dead Didn’t Send You - July 1, 2026
Northing Notes
Between the Sunday chapters, Northing Notes surfaces clues about and artifacts from this place. Some of it arrives here, in your inbox: short essays on what the chapters raise (the lost art of the orchard, how a place-name dies, what we owe a stranger’s letters, record-keeping as a kind of devotion), the occasional map, a note on a record or an object, and now and then a piece that never fit the story and would not leave it alone.
The rest of Northing lives out in the open, on its own surfaces. You are welcome to go and be with it.
The catalog. The records themselves, the maps and photographs and papers, gathered on are.na and browsable all at once, the way you would go through a box of them at a table.
The place, day by day. Northing as it stands, posted on Instagram across the seasons, no story and no captions to speak of, only the valley keeping its own hours.
The long view. Hours of the place, quiet and moving, on YouTube, to put on and let run while you do something else, or nothing.
None of it asks anything of you. It is there to be visited, the way a place is.