Just as they were once the places where the battle against the disappearance of the world was waged, they now resemble the “invisible cities” that Italo Calvino wrote of in 1972: unheard-of, bizarre ...

In Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities, Marco Polo and Kublai Khan are sitting comfortably, the former regaling the latter with descriptions of the impossible places he has visited. Khan asks Polo ...