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Still thinking about The Odyssey? Read these 6 books next

From Stephen Fry’s ‘Odyssey’ to Margaret Atwood’s ‘Penelopiad’, dive into these Homer-inspired titles

Evening Standard

Ovid’s Metamorphoses is all about mothers

Even if you haven’t heard of Ovid, you almost certainly know some of his stories. His most famous work, the Metamorphoses, is a Latin epic poem composed of hundreds of tales of mythical transformations, many of which are still being told and retold today.

The Conversation

Twenty experts on the book that got them through their 20s – part two

Your 20s can be an intense decade. In the words of Taylor Swift, those years are “happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time”. Many of us turn to literature to guide us through the highs and the lows of this formative time. We asked 20 of our academic…

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Undisciplined? Entitled? Lazy? Gen Z faces familiar flood of workplace criticism

A new generation of younger workers are being derided as delusional and unreliable, just as millennials were

The Guardian - US

16 Must-Read Books About Greek Mythology and Other Folklore

All the gods and goddesses you know and love, but with a scandalous or feminist twist.

Marie Claire

10 Best Queer Fantasy Books For Adults

Queer fantasy fans call for aid, and like Rohan, this authors have answered.

The Mary Sue

The 10 Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century

Eat your heart out, Tolkien. These are the 10 best fantasy books of a new century.

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10 best greek mythology fantasy books

These classic Greek fantasies flow like ambrosia! Or really runny Greek Yogurt!

The Mary Sue

TikTok meets Tolkien: how the Folio Society attracted gen Z readers

The publishing house is booming thanks to sci-fi and fantasy novels – and a love of artisanal editions

The Guardian - UK

The ultimate summer reading list: 15 novels about love, lust and sex to devour

From classic romance to steamy romps to lust and power, your beach reads are sorted courtesy of Guardian Australia’s staff and critics

The Guardian - AU

7 Novels Centering On Queer Characters I Loved, And 8 I Want To Read Next

Red, White and Royal Blue is one of the great LGBTQ+ books that I have read, and here are some others.

Cinemablend

Galatea by Madeline Miller audiobook review – literature’s first incel

Actor Ruth Wilson narrates this powerful retelling of Ovid’s Pygmalion myth, in which a sculptor falls in love with a statue of a woman

The Guardian - UK

The 25 Best BookTok Books You Should Pick Up Immediately

BookTok is obsessed, and so are we.

Marie Claire

The new Greek invasion: how ancient myths are having a pop culture moment in 2023

Greek myths are all over stages, books and TikTok, as a new generation thrills to the drama and intrigue, says Moya Crockett

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Two sides to a story: why feminist retellings are filling our bookshelves

From Nineteen Eighty-Four’s Julia to Shakespeare’s Rosaline, the trend for a new perspective on a familiar tale is continuing apace. Authors and publishers explain what old stories tell us about today

Daily Mirror

Legends and characters in books, TV and film 'you didn't realise were LGBTQ+'

Myths and legends geek Dan Jones' book - Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend - features characters including god Achilles, Wonder Woman, and Barbie's Ken doll

Evening Standard

The blockbuster book trends of the year

From cosy crime to queer romance, Francesca Brown looks at the literary trends dominating the charts, and filling our shelves

The Conversation

Five books you'll like if you love The Odyssey

In The Odyssey, an almost 3,000-year-old epic attributed to a poet known as Homer, the soldier Odysseus narrates most adventures in retrospect. The poem, which tells of Odysseus’ return from the Trojan War, is both the origin of our concept of nostalgia (from the Greek nostos meaning the journey home)…

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‘After lockdown, things exploded’ – how TikTok triggered a books revolution

Have teenagers taken control of publishing? With some authors notching up a billion views, we look at how TikTok is electrifying the world of books – creating bestsellers, reviving classics and rescuing neglected genres

The Independent UK

High schooler reveals he brought his great-grandmother to senior prom: ‘Everyone just went wild’

‘If she would have said no, I wouldn’t have gone’

The Times of India

'The Fountainhead' was my awakening about how crucial it is to read critically: Madeline Miller

American novelist Madeline Miller is best known for her books 'The Song of Achilles' (2011) and 'Circe' (2018). It's noted that it took Miller roughly a decade to write 'The Song of Achilles', for which she won the Orange Prize for Fiction (now known as the Women's Prize for Fiction).…

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Madeline Miller: ‘Reading Ayn Rand was like being dipped in slime’

The author of The Song of Achilles on discovering TS Eliot, her childhood love of James Herriot and the subversive genius of Chinua Achebe

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