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These Little Worlds

by Donovan Hohn,

From an essay that was scheduled to appear in the Spring 2024 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Islands. The issue has been on hold since the magazine went on hiatus late…

Measureless to Man

by Matthew Sherrill,

The art of mapping the underground

The Hills Have Eyes

From images hidden by cartographers in maps of Switzerland that have been published by the Swiss Federal Office of Topography. A man overlooking the town of Interlaken from a summit…

Grand Plan

by Jeremy Miller,

Why has Google added the Grand Canyon to Street View?

Oil and Water: Extracting Petroleum, Exterminating Nature

by Jakob Rosenzweig, Jacqueline Bishop,

“Oil and Water: Extracting Petroleum, Exterminating Nature,” by Jakob Rosenzweig (cartography) and Jacqueline Bishop (artwork). This map was produced for Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, co-edited by Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca…