Toward the end of our discussion on Solnit last week, we made a brief and runty attempt to tackle the word infinite —how it’s hinted at ...

The commercial jingle Rice-a-Roni: the San Francisco treat catapulted rice pilaf, the underdog side dish, to fame in the 1960’s. Kra...

Solnit, (a solid) B Craig and Justin: 85% At some point during the semester, slightly befuddled at how to quantify the quality of these essa...

A number of years ago I bought a large framed map of THE WORLD: Compiled and Drawn in the Cartographic Division of the National Geograp...

Fortunately, we do not have to debate whether or not Rebecca Solnit’s Infinite City essays; most reviewers refer to the maps’ accompanying t...