Saturday, July 18, 20268 stories
Emily Wilson on Homer, plus Paris Review interviews
Today's literature coverage is dominated by two deep-dive interviews: Emily Wilson on her feminist Odyssey translation, and Margaret Atwood and Claudia Rankine on craft and identity. The Paris Review's Art of Fiction and Art of Poetry series offer rare, substantive looks at how major writers think.
Friday, July 17, 20267 stories
Nolan's Odyssey and Paris Review classics
Today's literature coverage splits between the ancient and the modern. Christopher Nolan's take on The Odyssey is generating analysis of the epic's ending, while two Paris Review interviews with Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison resurface as essential craft documents. A musician's memoir and a summer reading list round things out.