On Nov. 3, The Iliad Bookshop in North Hollywood was set ablaze in what appears to be an act of arson. Boxes of books had been pushed in front of the back door and set on fire, and a manifesto posted ...
Sing, O Muse, of the rage of Achilles ... but skip the verses about the wailing, faceless Trojan women herded into Greek camps to serve in kitchens or in beds, the starving children left in the burned ...
Emily Wilson’s translation of the “Iliad” brings Homer’s great war story to rousing new life. By Natalie Haynes Natalie Haynes is the author, most recently, of the novel “Stone Blind,” about Medusa, ...