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Charting Worlds: Five Longreads About Maps

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 15, 2022October 19, 2022

From fantasylands to unique cartographers (including one that’s non-human), here are five stories about maps.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Prince & Place

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 15, 2021October 19, 2022

“Prince’s sound is a musical hybrid, in which the history of Minneapolis, its people, and the social forces organizing life there are brought together.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

How to Map Nothing

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 26, 2021October 19, 2022

“What if we took each sourdough selfie, each Zoom class, each Peloton ride, each Netflix binge and mapped the ecology of resources and services that have made it possible for some of us? And at the same time impossible for others?” On pandemic maps and the Great Pause.

Posted inCulture, Design, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

How Brooklyn Lost Itself

by Aaron Gilbreath July 6, 2018October 19, 2022

On the way from the old Brooklyn to the new branded, post-industrial Brooklyn, the city got lost.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

‘Because California Moves Through You’

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 30, 2017October 19, 2022

Essayist Lynell George muses on California and the two cities—Los Angeles and San Francisco—that own a part of her heart.

Memorial coffins on the US-Mexico barrier for those killed crossing the border fence in Tijuana, México
Posted inBlog Post, Current Events

Death in the Desert

by Pam Mandel March 15, 2017October 19, 2022

“The number of migrants crossing illegally from Mexico to the U.S. has declined dramatically. Yet the rugged borderlands of southern Arizona have become a death zone.”

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