A show at the Morgan Library & Museum centers on a popular travel compendium of the medieval era, filled with exaggerations ...

In the novel We, the Kindling, Otoniya J. Okot Bitek weaves together stories of women who were abducted as children by a ...

To get around this distortion, other map-makers have come up with different compromises. A projection named after the geographer Arthur Robinson curves the longitudes but keeps the latitudes straight ...