The Odyssey by Homer

Just finished listening to The Odyssey as narrated by John Lee (Fitzgerald translation). The story is familiar — it’s the ur-story of our culture — but it never grows old. Things I noticed this time around: The contrast between the fates of Odysseus and Agammemnon, and between the characters of Helen, Clytemnesta, and Penelope. The [...]

The plots thicken

Bella Stander at Reading Under the Covers has an interesting take on the public’s overwhelming interest in the Anna Nicole Smith saga. She found her inspiration in an article by John Sutherland: He compares the Smith plot to two by one of my all-time favorite authors, Anthony Trollope: Is He Popenjoy? (just moved to the [...]

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