Table of Contents

This issue, with a themed section on Mountains, is 112 pages. It reaches new peaks; read with caution.

• Inventory / Artist's Impact
  Mats Bigert
  Naming Mercury's craters
• A Minor History Of / Giant Spheres
  Joshua Foer
  An invitation to the ball
• Colors / White
  Joseph Grigely
  Bleached world
• Black Pyramid / Concrete & Cement
  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  Form and Spectre

• Making Sense at the Movies
  Amelie Hastie
  Habit and memory by the light of the silver screen
• Readymade Remade
  Leland de la Durantaye
  Pierre Pinoncelli and the legacy of Duchamp's "fountains"
• Artist Projects / CMYK
  Mathew Brannon, Morgan Fisher, Liam Gillick, Amy Granat, Elin Hansdottir & Darri Lorenzen, Leslie Hewitt, Cory McCorkle and James Welling
  Curated by Walead Beshty
• Ready for Takeoff
  Viktoria Tkaczyk
  Robert Hooke's flying experiments
• Men of War
  The faces behind the weapons
• Figuring Life
  Margaret Wertheim
  Redrawing Darwin's evolutionary tree

• Mont Blanc Montage
  Colby Chamberlain
  Up the mountains, in fiction and in fact
• O Altitudo!: An Interview with Robert Macfarlane
  Brian Dillon and Robert Macfarlane
  Peak aesthetics
• Mountain and Fog
  Nina Power
  Kant and the Nazi sublime
• Artist Project / Much Was Decided When You Were Born
  Mariele Neudecker
  
• Lunar Park
  Christopher Turner
  James Nasmyth and the mountains of the moon
• Surveying the Alps
  Jeffrey Kastner
  The mountain views of Hans Conrad Escher
• Salvation Mountain
  Joel Sternfeld
  Leonard Knight's epiphany
• Artist Project / Mountain with No Name (Pandjsher Valley, Afghanistan)
  Marine Hugonnier
  
• A Note of Warning Concerning "Bashford's Grotto"
  Maiken Umbach weighs in on the Chadwicks’ “discovery”
• Bashford's Grotto
  Chadwick Dalton
  America's least known (and most dangerous) mountain
• Talking with the Volcanoes
  Jesse Lerner
  Devotion to the twin peaks
• Utopia on the Roof of the World
  Chris Wiley
  The search for Shambhala

• Postcard / Russian Mountains
  Ryo Manabe
  
• Bookmark / The Growing Pains of Mont Blanc