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ILLUSTRATIONS

1.1A bleak winter scene along the failed Maginot Line where upended rails were placed along the border with Germany to stop Hitler’s invading tanks. The Panzers simply went around the blockade.

1.2Modern life can be as quotidian as a bus ride alongside a two-millennia-old Roman wall in Rimini—a wall designed to protect the city from invaders that now attracts tourists.

1.3Making do—friends and family visit through the border wall at Friendship Park under the ever-watching eyes of the Border Patrol.

4.1Marking division from sea to shining sea, the starkly differentiated Mexican-American borderline drops into the Pacific between San Diego and Tijuana.

7.1In Rosario, Argentina, this smiling convenience store owner protects himself and his stock against bandits by doing business from inside the walls of his cage.

8.1Portugal’s Guimarães Castle, built over a thousand years ago, needed no panic room. It is a panic room: windowless. All walls.

8.2The cover sheet for the author’s Ministerium für Staatsicherheit (Stasi) file.

8.3The abandoned Green Zone in Nicosia, keeping the Turkish Cypriots and the Greek Cypriots apart in the last walled city of Europe.

8.4The Cyprus Green Line is a ghost-town swath across the island, a scar leaving echoes of emptiness since 1974.

8.5A police dummy at work on the highway outside Addis Ababa, alongside a makeshift wall of corrugated metal.

9.1The wall of one of the “slave castles” on the Ghana coast. Through holes in the walls like this one captive Africans bound for slavery were loaded on ships headed for the Americas.

12.1Along even the most fraught borderlines in the world—such as Checkpoint Charlie at the Berlin Wall—barriers eventually become routine stops for tourists’ smiles at the camera.

12.2The Virgin of Guadalupe provides comfort—faded, peeling and sharing a sun-bleached wall with graffiti tags in El Centro, California.

14.1Sound walls keep much of the roar of traffic confined to the Autostrada without blocking the view at Arno in Tuscany.

14.2The pragmatic use of a Portland, Oregon, wall: advertising.

19.1A retaining wall north of the border in California on Highway 101 holding back a hillside threatening to slide a blockade of mud across the crucial coastal corridor.

19.2The border as business. Modest lodgings like this Calexico motel greet travelers coming across the border from cosmopolitan Mexicali.

21.1A smoke break up against a wall in Varadero, Cuba.

22.1The severe and serpentine borderline wall separating Fortress America from the Global South at Tijuana.

22.2With prototypes for Trump’s wall as a backdrop, a family walks along the borderline on the Tijuana side. Note the little girl riding on the bike: Her angelic face illustrates the front cover of Up Against the Wall.