The Long List
September 19, 2009

The Map as Art

From the author of the exhilaratingly engaging You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination comes another alluring, and absorbing volume, which collects 360 colorful cartographic visions by artists such as Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Maira Kalman, Olafur Eliasson, and many more. Entrancing.

 

Daybook

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

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In the Margin

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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