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Nature & place

A Shared Lake Cannot Be Renamed From One Shore

President Trump’s order calling Lake Ontario “Lake America” applies only in the United States, while the water remains shared with Canada. George Rippey Stewart’s Names on the Land offers a historical frame for the contradiction: governments can prescribe names more easily than they can make communities accept them.

Names on the land by George Rippey Stewart

The Western Landscape Is an Archive—and an Alibi

Early coverage of Téa Obreht’s Sunrise keeps placing nature beside secrets, myths, and historical legacy. That convergence raises a useful possibility: landscape can preserve the past while making it harder to read.

Sunrise by Téa Obreht