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Friday essay: I’ve been reading The Odyssey my whole life. Nolan’s film version is exhilarating – but not perfect

I first read The Odyssey during the summer holidays when I was 15 years old. Parked under the shade of the mulberry tree in our Brisbane backyard, I would read, grab a few mulberries, then read some more, my fingers sometimes staining the pages dark purple. It was a secondhand…

The Conversation · Jul 16

Reading Homer’s Iliad feels like scrolling through TikTok

I first picked up The Iliad because the cloth-bound red cover, stamped with gold flames, was simply gorgeous. So much for not judging a book by its cover. The Penguin Classics edition sat on my shelf for months before I finally opened it. For years, the text had felt inaccessible,…

The Conversation · Jul 1

How to use procrastination to your advantage

As medieval sages understood, putting things off – done well – can open the doors to creativity and purpose

The Guardian - UK · Apr 5

African writer ruined by row with Graham Greene finally gets chance to shine

Fifty years after being accused of plagiarism, book is reissued in a bid to rehabilitate gifted Malian author Yambo Ouologuem

The Guardian - UK · Dec 10, 2023

Review: 'The Best of Everything,' by Rona Jaffe

Books in brief

Tribune News Service · Mar 29, 2023

A Childhood: The Biography of a Place review – a classic of the deep south

Harry Crews’s unsparing portrait of his often brutal upbringing in 1930s Georgia is a window into a lost world

The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2023

Marvel comics join literary canon in special edition by Penguin Classics

Spider-Man, Black Panther and Captain America in black spine format complete with scholarly introduction

The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2022