Selected Titles
FSG / 2022
The Broken Grids
An investigative history tracing postwar municipal engineering, displaced neighborhoods, and forgotten cartographic errors across five industrial river valleys. Based on four years of regional municipal records and municipal court depositions.
Faber & Faber / 2019
Cartography of Silence
A study of acoustic heritage, vanishing quiet zones, and early telephonic infrastructure in northern maritime settlements. Winner of the Overseas Press citation for historical non-fiction and translated into seven languages.
Critical Reception
The Published Record
Vance writes with the relentless factual clarity of a seasoned investigative reporter and the architectural poise of a master essayist.
The Times Literary Supplement
A triumph of patient archival retrieval. The Broken Grids dismantles mid-century urban mythology document by municipal document.
The New York Review of Books
Few practitioners working in contemporary non-fiction possess Vance's gift for turning forgotten cadastral surveys into riveting narrative literature.
Granta Magazine
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