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Dahl, Maps, The Royal Tenenbaums
The new Vogue features contemporary authors as members of Edith Wharton’s circle and was shot at the Mount. Look for Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Junot Díaz as Henry James, Morton...
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Map Quest
The draw of the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s classic breakup song “Maps” is that it is as plainly sad as possible. “Wait,” the band’s lead singer, Karen O, sings over and over, “they don’t love you like I love...
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Fair’s Fair: An Interview with Neil Freeman
Way back in 2004, the artist Neil Freeman debuted a novel idea on his Web site, Fake is the New Real: a map of the United States, redrawn so that each state has a more or less equal population. This,...
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Maps
People pretend the idea of fact-checking fiction is hilarious and a paradox and maybe even scandalously bureaucratic and wrongheaded. But when fiction gets facts wrong, people care. If a novel claims...
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They Don’t Love You Like I Love You
In seventh grade, we read The Catcher in the Rye. One day, Ms. C. handed out xeroxed maps of New York City and asked us to trace Holden Caulfield’s path through New York. We did. “Do you see the...
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City Lights
This interactive Bay Area Literary Map, courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle, is fantastic, and because we are greedy, we want one for every city in the world.
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When People Movers Were the Future, and Other News
From the September 10, 1972, edition of Our New Age, drawn by Gene Fawcette. Via Paleofuture A legible—and quite informative—map of the Internet. Would-be circumnavigators may find themselves buffeted...
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Meet Me in Treasondale, and Other News
Before there was MFA vs. NYC, there was Flannery O’Connor, discussing the merits of an MFA program: “It can put [a writer] in the way of experienced writers and literary critics, people who are...
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Happy Motoring
Rand McNally published its first road atlas on April 15, 1924. It was called—in a touching testament to the marketing of yore—the Rand McNally Auto Chum. Many hours of intrepid googling have failed to...
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From the Land of Pleasant Living, and Other News
A Baltimore icon slips into Russian hands. Remembering John Berryman, whose centenary is later this month: “Berryman has not been forgotten, but his gnomic revelations have less force than they used...
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Your Art Will Last Forever, and Other News
An ancient bison painting in Spain’s Cave of Altamira. Image via Nautilus So you’re making a work of art—congratulations! If you want it to endure physically for eons to come, thus imbuing you with a...
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Got Those Travel-writing Blues, and Other News
From a poster for the 1913 World Esperanto Congress.Explaining the Internet’s Joan Didion obsession is a tricky thing: “In the crossover of feminism, fashion, and literary interests, there is a whole...
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The Honeymoon Package
Pál Szinyei Merse, Balloon, 1882. She said that my good qualities were my bad qualities—this I have come to realize is true of everyone. On the one hand, I was game, eager and perfectly ready to see...
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A Corporation for Every Artist, and Other News
Andy Warhol, lenticular prints designed for Rain Machine (Los Angeles version), 1971. Image via HyperallergicFact: there are men still walking the earth who have shared a meal at Denny’s with Orson...
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Old Maps
Islandia, a map by Abraham Ortelius, ca. 1590.Many years ago, on a family vacation in another country, we took an English-language tour of a medieval university. The group saw the antique telescopes...
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Martians—They’re Just Like Us! And Other News
Robert Abbett’s cover art for John Carter of Mars, 1965.Compared to writers at the beginning of their careers, successful authors have an enormous freedom to experiment with form and style: their...
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Elaborate Networks of Siphons, and Other News
Detail from an illustration in an 1851 English edition of Hero’s Pneumatica.The forecast is calling for more rain this weekend. Why not stay in and curl up with a cup of organic fair-trade tea and a...
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Michael Herr, 1940–2016
Photograph by Jane Bown.No one could write like Michael Herr. We all tried: scribes and grunts, killers and chroniclers, fool novelists and crackpot journos. Herr’s work doesn’t so much loom over...
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Three Geographers
Martha Hollander’s poem “Three Geographers” appeared in our Winter 1992 issue. Her latest collection is The Game of Statues. Bending over the map on the floorthat unfolds like a rare carpetwe trace our...
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A Battery of Tests for You, and Other News
“The Make a Picture Story Test,” a psychological study from 1942. Image courtesy Redstone Press, via The New Yorker.Today in nomenclature: having lived for years in total ignorance of the Transatlantic...
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