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A History of the Novel in Britain by Philip Hensher review – a masterpiece of criticism

This joyous book takes readers on a literary adventure across 200 years of fiction, from Defoe to Zadie SmithIn his opening paragraph, Philip Hensher declares that a novel not only...

Emily Wilson's Scathing 'Odyssey' Review Violates Ebert's Law

One thing you can't take away from The Odyssey is that it is now part of the greater cultural lexicon. It feels like it is dominating every cultural conversation, inside Hollywood...

Where Does All This Odyssey Discourse Leave Us?

Our critics on that viral review from Homer translator Emily Wilson.

Homer scholar torches Nolan’s ODYSSEY

The Emily Wilson ODYSSEY review crashed the London Review of Books site for a few hours. Ouch.

Joyce Carol Oates Panned Emily Wilson’s Odyssey Pan

She thinks the classicist’s criticism of Christopher Nolan’s film used “the crude language of MAGA folks.”

Chills of the Unsaid

In its skewering of London’s literary egos, Gwendoline Riley’s The Palm House takes a step away from her previous parent-dominated novels, but it too is told by a middle-aged woman...

Literature within the reader and the writer

In Yahya bin Salam al Mundhiri’s three stories collected under the title A Brief Moment of Panic, published by Arab Publishing House, fear takes many forms: fear of loss, lonelines...

Emily Wilson vs. Christopher Nolan, and Why Literary Translators Don’t Make the Best Film Critics

On this week's "Screen Talk," we review Emily Wilson's "review" and discuss "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" and A24's "Tony."

‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster

Wilson, whose work on Homer’s epic was praised by Nolan, said his film was grandiose and superficial with ‘nothing convincing to say’• Peter Bradshaw reviews The Odyssey• ‘At times...

Short story collection The Other Poet Drives a Black Mercedes shows Órfhlaith Foyle at the peak of her powers

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Christopher Nolan Says There's A 'Fundamental Flaw' In How We Critique Film

Christopher Nolan’sThe Odyssey has been broadly praised by critics. The record-breaking movie has a whopping 94% on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes (that jumps up to 97% fo...

All of Life

In the Review’s June 25 issue, Joe Dunthorne writes about a recent oral history of the New York School poets and poses himself a challenge: “How to analyze a poetics of irreverence...

Artful Weaving

Aristotle, for one, wasn’t all that impressed by Odysseus’s adventures. In the seventeenth chapter of his Poetics he observes, apropos of the relationship of a story’s “essential”...

Please Judge What I’m Reading

Literary awards get dismissed for elitism. But more than ever, we need passionate and idiosyncratic champions for the books most worth seeking out.

Emily Wilson’s Pan of ‘The Odyssey’ Ignites a Debate Among Classicists and Commenters

Wilson, whose 2017 translation of Homer’s Greek classic influenced the director Christopher Nolan, panned his screenplay for the movie version in an essay for The London Review of...

Criticizing Critical Theory

Critical theory is a religion, advancing its own view of the world and human nature. The post Criticizing Critical Theory appeared first on byFaith.

Read, Be Read, and Read Again

ABSTRACT: Reading classic fiction is an exercise both in reading and in being read. Great works of literature — commonly identified as classics because of their enduring longevity,...

On Writing

“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »

I used to hate Shakespeare ... until a 200-year-old book changed my mind

I got in an argument once with a guy who was dismissing white, Anglo-Saxon culture, saying it was overrated and overrepresented. He thought Americans needed to learn about other cu...

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The author recommends poetry and post-apocalyptic works.

Christopher Nolan Says There Is a ‘Fundamental Flaw’ With Amateur Film Criticism: ‘To Identify the Mechanism Does Not In...

Critics have said their piece about Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” and now he is saying his piece about them. While on “The Odyssey” press tour, the director spoke with podcast...