Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World By Trevor Paglen 324 pages; Dutton The Gist: From Area 51 to the once-secret prisons of Afghanistan, there are certain places ...

A third of British adults thought Brazil was Australia and more than a quarter put France in India’s place on the globe in a shocking new geography poll. A fifth of people (19%) reckoned Mexico, in ...