Charles Dickens would recognize the curve of the river and the placement of the streets -- but he would be surprised to learn that his “Bleak House” is right across the street from something called ...

The nation’s capital is well known for its political history, but what of its literary history? DC By the Book, a new project from the District of Columbia Public Library, aims to guide curious ...

Though classic novels such as Treasure Island and The Hobbit often provide a map of the fictional topography, most novels require us to rely on our imaginations. However, with Zest Book’s latest title ...

Map from front endpapers to The Odyssey of Homer (translated by T. E. Shaw (Col. T. E. Lawrence)), 1935. © Oxford University Press, Inc. / Reproduced with permission ...

In a new exhibition, the long, difficult history of literary maps is explored, from James Joyce to Raymond Chandler From efforts to map Odysseus’s journey to Borges’s commentary on map-making in On ...

To celebrate the opening of its new location at East 82nd Street and Lexington Avenue, the eyewear company Warby Parker has released an Upper East Side Literary Map and Tour that pairs classic New ...

A nub of 47 square miles, much of it punctuated by vertigo-inducing hills, most of it surrounded by ocean water - half of it the open, not-so-tranquil Pacific, the other half the calm, protected ...

An atlas is a collection of maps in a volume. The writer Rebecca Solnit has recently created a series of inventive atlases of American cities. She has described a city as “a machine with innumerable ...

Around the World in 80 Days Andrew DeGraff/Zest Books The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, part 1 Andrew DeGraff/Zest Books Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, part 1 Andrew ...

Just in time for the upcoming Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, The Times’ books staff has created an interactive map of Literary Los Angeles, a work in progress. We’ve gathered passages from more ...

If you’re looking for something -- a geographic landmark, your childhood home, a favorite spot near your college campus -- it shouldn’t take you more than a few clicks to find it. Programs like Google ...

The term "Renaissance Man" tends to be overused, but for E.T. Malone Jr. of Warrenton, N.C., it fits just fine. In the 1980s, Malone took over the old "Literary Lantern" column from the late Walter ...