"A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and productivity that would have been unimaginable just a century ago. It is the physical manifestation of our social contract--of our ability to work collectively for the public good--and it consists of the most complex and vast technological systems ever...

"The American highway system today is a vast, dense, functionally differentiated network consisting of one million miles of major roads and expressways that collect and distribute traffic from an additional three million miles of rural roads and city streets. In The American Road, Katherine Johnson offers a new explanation for the outsized dimensions of the American highway system that aims to reconcile and supersede the existing accounts, which attribute...

A brilliant new collection of poetry by the winner of the Kingley Tufts Poetry Award and author of Falling Water, hailed by John Ashbery as one of the greatest American poets since Wallace Stevens. John Koethe's recent honor as the winner of the $50,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Falling Water confirms his status as one of the nation's most important poets. He has been included in this year's Best American Poetry, was a finalist for the Boston...