Maps of America have recently looked red and blue, but this one from British bookseller Geoff Sawers and his co-artist Bridget Hannigan is pure ink. Instead of outlines of states, this map, brought to ...

The drawing on the cover of my novel Short War — “América invertida,” or “Inverted Map,” a 1943 work by the Uruguayan painter and sculptor Joaquín Torres García — is hanging on a wall in my house.