A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.

From the author of Youngblood comes a “brilliant and daring” (Phil Klay, award-winning author of Redeployment) novel following a group of super-powered sold

"Originally published in the U.K. in 2014 under the title Ten cities that made an empire, by Allen Lane, London."

This major anthology brings together the best literary writing about New York--from O. Henry, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Steinbeck to Paul

Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cro