{"id":102946,"date":"2016-09-22T09:16:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T13:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=102946"},"modified":"2016-09-22T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:24:07","slug":"hy-brasil-wherever-want-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/22\/hy-brasil-wherever-want-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Hy-Brasil Is Wherever You Want It to Be, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_102948\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/hybrasil-768x576.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102948\" class=\"wp-image-102948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/hybrasil-768x576.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-102948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hy-Brasil in Petrus Plancius\u2019s \u201cOrbis Terrarum Typus de Integro Multis in Locis Emendatus,\u201d Amsterdam, 1594. Image via Mapping Boston Foundation and Hyperallergic<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in cartographical howlers: a new exhibition in Boston, \u201cHy-Brasil: Mapping a Mythical Island,\u201d chronicles the exciting centuries when no one really knew where anything was and mapmakers had carte blanche to draw whole islands anywhere they damn well pleased: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/316836\/how-an-imaginary-island-stayed-on-maps-for-five-centuries\/\" target=\"_blank\">O Brazil, or\u00a0Hy-Brasil\u00a0as it was frequently labeled, had haunted maps since the fourteenth century, first as a mistake, then as a mythological tribute<\/a>. Its size and shape often morphed, its location wandered from Ireland to North America, and its name varied, but for five centuries it endured in Western\u00a0cartography \u2026 There are\u00a0all sorts of legends\u00a0attached to Hy-Brasil, including\u00a0giant black rabbits that lived with\u00a0a sorcerer, gods hidden by the mists, lost civilizations, and, more recently, UFOs. However, its greatest connection is to Irish folklore,\u00a0particularly the belief in the \u2018Otherworld\u2019 and its Elysium, a \u2018Land of Youth.\u2019 When it first was illustrated on a 1325 map, Hy-Brasil\u00a0was considered to only be visible\u00a0once every seven years due to the heavy mists, its land housing\u00a0an immortal race of people.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Planning your next family vacation? Why not force your loved ones to embark on a literary pilgrimage of Russia? You can tour the places where Dostoyevsky suffered, and where Tolstoy suffered, and then you can bicker among yourselves about which one of them suffered more productively. Jacqueline Carey did it, and she makes it sound more appealing: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/25\/travel\/dostoyevsky-vs-tolstoy-competitive-family-vacation-in-russia.html\" target=\"_blank\">We had the chance to visit the place where [<em>The Brothers Karamazov<\/em>] was written\u2014Dostoyevsky\u2019s last apartment, now a museum<\/a> \u2026 Tea was always kept hot in the samovar, and he thought only he could make it right. When he drank tea made by his wife, he would say, \u2018Oh, how wretched I am.\u2019 He died on the couch, gazing at the Bible \u2026 In the Tolstoys\u2019 sixteen-room winter house were many objects: books, a chess set, a piano, a tiger skin, a closet of clothes. On the landing an upright stuffed bear held a plate for visiting cards. Tolstoy was a man of obsessive enthusiasms. At the back of the house was a workroom with his cobbler tools, which he used to make shoes, including a pair for his oldest daughter Tatyana\u2019s future husband.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alex Abramovich has watched Ron Howard\u2019s new Beatles doc so we don\u2019t have to, and he reports back with the interesting part: this one time in 1964 when the Beatles more or less unwittingly helped to end segregation in Jacksonville, Florida. They gave a press conference and said, emphatically, that they didn\u2019t much care for segregation. And that was that: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/20\/alex-abramovich\/come-together\/\" target=\"_blank\">The show\u2019s organizers relented. On 11 September 1964, the Beatles performed for an integrated audience in Jacksonville<\/a> \u2026 Howard\u2019s film tells us, matter-of-factly, that as a result, stadiums across the South were integrated. Maybe so. The Civil Rights Act passed earlier that summer would have already mandated it, but\u00a0as Jacksonville showed, Southern concert promoters were in no rush to comply. The Beatles themselves never made a big deal out of the Jacksonville show. The officially sanctioned\u00a0<em>Beatles Anthology<\/em> quotes John Lennon:\u00a0\u2018We had a marvelous time waterskiing in Florida.\u2019 It\u2019s\u00a0the only time, for all of 1964, that Florida\u2019s mentioned.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A few months ago, in this space, I mentioned <em>chaohuan<\/em>, a new school of Chinese literature roughly translated as \u201cultra-unrealism.\u201d It sounded cool, as literary subgenres with <em>ultra<\/em> in them often do, but no one could really say what it was. Now we know a little more: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/782940\/a-new-literary-genre-critiques-the-scariest-most-unbelievable-part-of-life-in-china-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\">Like magic realism, the ultra-unreal reflects the experience of daily life in communities often dominated by centralized powers, wherein bizarre events become normalized<\/a>. However, rather than introducing actual magic into its narratives, the ultra-unreal focuses on real-life events, not supernatural occurrences \u2026 One example of this real-life magic realism is the existence of rural villages that have been abandoned, save for young children and their grandparents \u2026 Another is the explosive development of urban centers, which evoke a sense of fragile, transitional space.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Carla Hayden is the new Librarian of Congress\u2014a big job. Everyone is wondering: just who is this soi-disant \u201clibrarian\u201d? How did she rise through the ranks of librarians everywhere to secure this most coveted of positions? It doesn\u2019t sound like we have anything to fear: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/carla-hayden-takes-charge-of-the-worlds-largest-library\" target=\"_blank\">During her first job, as a children\u2019s public librarian in Chicago, she met a boy named Leonard<\/a>. He had a cleft lip, and \u2018he was teased a lot,\u2019 she said. Leonard soon became a library regular, and Hayden gave him small tasks like organizing the card catalogue (which, as it happens, used the Library of Congress classification system). Each day, Leonard would wordlessly sit down and pick up where he\u2019d left off. He seemed to take comfort in \u2018the security and the safety of that library,\u2019 Hayden recalled. \u2018He had a place.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in cartographical howlers: a new exhibition in Boston, \u201cHy-Brasil: Mapping a Mythical Island,\u201d chronicles the exciting centuries when no one really knew where anything was and mapmakers had carte blanche to draw whole islands anywhere they damn well pleased: \u201cO Brazil, or\u00a0Hy-Brasil\u00a0as it was frequently labeled, had haunted maps since the fourteenth century, first 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