The literary superstar who predicted today's AI — in 1986
Booker Prize–winning novelist Julian Barnes also saw Wikipedia coming. Who knew?
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The Odysseys after The Odyssey
What to read, watch, and think about once you've finished the epic poem (or the movie version).
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Homer the travel writer
The Odyssey isn't just the bedrock of Western literature — it's a master class in transforming experience into narrative.
'It's a many-headed Hydra'
A Q&A with author and translator Daniel Mendelsohn on what he's looking for in an Odyssey movie.
The Odyssey is strange
Especially when you're trying to turn it into a Hollywood movie.
The world's best cheese is ...
... definitely not what you think it is!
My left foot (and right calf, and right wrist, and left shoulder)
Everything hurts, and I'm full of rage. Will that help me heal?
Bottomless brunch is the worst, and also the best
Eggs! White girls! Mimosas! Fedoras!