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, ...

Homer is often called the—or at least a—“father of Western civilization.” This is not a new idea. To take a prominent example, already before the end of the first century A.D., the Roman rhetorician ...

At Christmas, 1939, a few months into the new World War, London bookshops were very busy. The war was bringing in a public eager to learn about weapons, planes, and the nature of the country that was ...