Mapping the war
aul Auster would love Strava. The best-selling author’s extraordinary 1985 novella centres around the mysterious Peter Stillman and the amateur sleuth, Quinn, who tails him from dawn to dusk around the streets of Manhattan recording every detail in his notebook. After weeks, Quinn is no nearer to knowing what Stillman’s purpose is, so he translates his notes into geographical maps of Stillman’s wanderings. In each map he deciphers the shape of a letter from the alphabet and
