The island of Calypso

periplum, not as land looks on a map but as sea bord seen by men sailing. Ezra Pound, Canto LIX We went to see Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey . What did I think of it? I agree with what translator Daniel Mendelsohn wrote in the New York Review of Books and I recommend reading his essay . Emily Wilson's scathing LRB review was entertaining but had me wincing from that second paragraph, where the…