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‘More postmodern than ancient’: why the Odyssey is everywhere, from Oz to Westeros

Christopher Nolan’s take on the Odyssey is set to break box-office records. What made the director so determined to adapt the ancient Greek epic? And why does a poem from 600BC hold a vice-like grip on pop culture?

The Guardian - UK

You Can Fear Zohran Mamdani but Also Hate Andrew Cuomo

Mamdani's socialism is unacceptable, but the former governor is himself unacceptable.

Reason

The 10 Best Witch Fantasy Books For Adults

These witch fantasy books will leave you spellbound.

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The 10 Best Fantasy Books About Gods and Immortals

Your mortal eyes are unworthy.

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10 Fantasy Books That Belong On The Syllabus For Wizard School

These fantasy books are wizard required reading.

The Mary Sue

The 10 Best Non-Violent Fantasy Books

Fantasy without violence? Whoever heard of such a thing? How else the realm supposed to defeat the Dark Lord no one’s gonna introduce him to the business end of a magic sword? While many fantasy stories feature characters who let their fists do the talking, this list made for readers…

The Mary Sue

10 best greek mythology fantasy books

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

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The 10 Best Historical Fantasy Books

If high school history class had involved historical fantasies like these, we all would have paid more attention.

The Mary Sue

Why does Cleopatra always have to die nude? Male titillaters – and the artist who stood against them

From Medusa to Circe, novelists have scored hits with feminist reimaginings of Greek myths and historical figures. But Swiss-born painter Angelica Kauffman beat them to it – by 250 years

The Guardian - UK

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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