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Map Room: A Radical Reading List on Cartographic Power, Perspective, and Possibility

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Seven stories celebrating our fascination with maps.

Thoughtful stories for thoughtless times. Longreads has published hundreds of original stories—personal essays, reported features, reading lists, and more—and more than 13,000 editor’s picks. And they’re all funded by readers like you. Become a member today. I want to support Longreads The shape on my screen did not look much like a map, or indeed, like anything at all. It was unglamorous compared to the glossy displays you could generate using special software and pre-existing maps, stacking layers, running queries to get useful answers to important questions. But this skeletal th

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