Seoul is very metropolitan: webbed with highways, illuminated at night, a definition of urban. Forty-story office buildings, subway network underground, bus network overground, Ubers and lightning-fast delivery and robot waiters and just about a zillion ways to get around—and even more to do. With rapid growth comes rapid loss. I think something in this city’s…
After all, airspace can be invaded, as can land and sea. God forbid you see an unauthorized Russian jet swoop over New Orleans. Shots will be fired. Of course, as soon as you decide to divide up and name the skies, it gets a bit complicated. How do you set up boundaries in the sky?…
“It gave me nightmares,” admitted Margaret Atwood of Frozen in Time in her introduction to this epic and thrilling account of the failure 1845 Franklin Expedition, and the reason for it—considered to this day one of the greatest mysteries of Arctic exploration of all time. Hooked, I began reading this ambitious project undertaken by Owen…