Noreen Masud begins her memoir A Flat Place with a straightforward reveal: “Flat landscapes had always given meaning to a world that made no sense to me.” It is this honest and brave tone that remains ...

…the way that I move when responding to everything around me is described as “being in a world of my own”. Whereas if I … only react to a much more limited part of my surroundings people claim that I ...

Though Masud never explicitly draws on this connection of wisdom-literature to the figure of the horizon, it represents a good way of thinking about the readings she gathers from the landscapes ...

“I’m not good at walking,” says the academic and author Noreen Masud. “And I’m not an expert or a geographer. I’m just a small, unfit, brown woman who finds a particular shape of land very absorbing!” ...

On the whole, Kansas has never really been thought of as a driving challenge. A glance at a state road map reveals a grid-like layout with relatively few twists and turns. Doctoral student Brandon ...

Images snapped from Zhurong’s cameras hint at a wide, flat landscape in Mars’s northern hemisphere that’s ripe for exploration. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has revealed the first ...