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Summary: Orion editors Jennifer Sahn, Andrew Blechman, and Jason Houston discuss this issue: an excerpt from bestselling author Charles C. Mann’s upcoming book 1493, about Christopher Columbus and the birth of globalization; a photo essay by Diane Meyer about people who survive (and often even thrive) in Los Angeles without cars; an essay by J.B. MacKinnon; and the fiction of Bulgarian author Miroslav Penkov.