A letter from the editors.

Kendall DeBoer uses the analytical framework of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" to explore the life and work of one prolific world builder—modernist painter, set designer, and poet Florine Stettheimer.

Joni Murphy, author of Talking Animals, asks, among other things, how to write "the United States is Nazi Germany but also Iraq, as colonized by itself?”

Kirsten Ihns's ekphrastic poem, prompted by Kim Keever's photograph Abstract 10245b.

A.V. Marraccini on Christopher Wren, Restoration London, city planning, fires, Riemann curvatures, the persistence of history, Japanese Metabolist architecture, Agnes Martin, grids, and other things that are or are not a torus.

Liz Collins discusses how a collection of maps shaped her new body of work for the exhibition Wayfinding.

Nara Roberta Silva on onerous US visa regulations, the liberal mythology of a "nation of immigrants," and racialization as state-making.