People still read books, you say?

During the fair weather this week I have been reading The Iliad in Emily Wilson's translation on the front porch. My interest in Wilson's translation was piqued by ill-informed criticism of her work online and further stimulated by reading David Stuttard's Hubris: Pericles, the Parthenon, and the Invention of Athens , part art history and part political and cultural history. So to Wilson's Iliad :…