What the Hellenic! Why is Christopher Nolan’s new Greek epic entirely devoid of Greeks? ○
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Set to be this year’s biggest blockbuster, The Odyssey’s cast has been selected to ‘represent the world’. Fair enough – except that one key country seems to have gone completely unrepresented …
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The polarising translator of the Odyssey and the Iliad sets out her philosophy in this fascinating collection
Emily Wilson’s translations of the Odyssey in 2017 and the Iliad in 2023 are now the stand…
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The world’s richest man can’t stop posting about how Lupita Nyong’o was chosen to play an imaginary woman
It was the casting choice that launched a thousand meltdowns. The Oscar-winning actor Lupita N…
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In a rare interview, the director has said he wants to do justice to Homer’s ‘original non-linear narrative’. How will that translate on screen?
• New trailer for Nolan’s The Odyssey released online
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Trailer offers glimpses of Matt Damon as mythological hero Odysseus, Tom Holland as his son Telemachus and Anne Hathaway as his wife, Penelope
The first trailer for Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of H…
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An epic poem about the Trojan war is merged with the domestic heartbreak of the scholar who discovers it in this ambitious, structurally problematic novel
In Yann Martel’s fifth novel, a Canadian clas…
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The best-selling novelist explains why his new retelling of Homer’s epic offers the ideal antidote to the age of Trump
Yann Martel’s writing studio, where he sits while we talk over Zoom, is a mere 10…