Plotted: A Literary Atlas - Andrew Degraff, Daniel Harmon
Plotted: A Literary Atlas (Pulp, $24.99) is two gifts in one: Andrew DeGraff’s colorful, elegant, and often ingenious illustrations—a visual and literary treat in themselves—and Daniel Harmon’s lively and informative essays, which spark the memory or the imagination—or both, depending on your reading history. The nineteen maps included here chart the timeless adventures recounted in Homer’s Odyssey, delineate the routes to love and/or social standing in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and retrace Frederick Douglass’s escape from slavery into his prominent role in shaping the national dialogue on race. Each of the volume’s nineteen chapters engages—or re-engages—readers with a canonical text—Hamlet, Moby-Dick, stories by O’Connor, L’Engle, and Le Guin—works that richly deserve and reward reading, whether for the first or the fifth time. Like the featured texts themselves, this unique Atlas will inspire different experiences in different readers, and it is a great gift for anyone who likes to get lost in printed pages.