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Chase County, Kans., writes William Trogdon, "is the most easterly piece of the American Far West." Meaning what? And who, for that matter, is Trogdon, whose name does not appear on the title page of his extraordinary and wholly original new book, PrairyErth (a deep map)? What's prairyerth...
...director of Tate, she amassed storyboard details on each scene -- not just the camera blocking but the underlying emotions of each character. "Films are too important not to have a drawn road map," she says. "I won't wing it. When I come into a shot, I always have an idea." She has an idea too of the field-marshalry of directing a movie. "You must learn to lead, to be a benevolent king. You try to communicate your vision and monitor those who don't get it. I feel safe there. I can be vulnerable. The code is, they...
...Only our third period is a postimperial moment. We Americans have been able to rejoice at the collapse of the Soviet empire. But we were mild (to say the least) in our celebrations as European colonial systems dissolved over the last half of the century, creating a whole map of new nations in a Third World that contains most of the globe's population...
...left by Jewish refugees fleeing Roman persecution in the 2nd century. Others hold out for Japanese fishermen blown off across the Pacific in 3000 B.C., and (most recently) an unknown Spanish mariner who supposedly reached the Bahamas in the 15th century, struggled back across the Atlantic and entrusted his map and logs to Columbus, who concealed his knowledge of them to reap the glory of discovery for himself. But then, why leave out the extraterrestrial beings who landed in Peru to create the vast Nazca earth drawings...
What's new? For starters, a jar of yogurt-covered raisins sit on the Dean's desk. A Chinese screen print displays itself on the wall. And a complete map of the Harvard campus, circa the University's 350th reunion, sits by the door...