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 24: Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Works was published on this day in 1951. Included in this omnibus edition were most of the pieces upon which her reputation now stands, putting her in a rank…

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In the Margin

Do you recall the tagline from the very first Superman movie? "You'll believe a man can fly!" Well, I'm tempted to craft such a hyperbolic assertion for China Miéville's…

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