This Week in Books: My 10-Year-Old Adores The Iliad
A new translation of the epic poem plunges us into the world of the ancient Greeks.
A new translation of the epic poem plunges us into the world of the ancient Greeks.
A new book cured me of any attachment to the idea of the stand-up as truth-telling philosophe.
Jon Fosse’s English translator on the author’s evocation of peacefulness
C Pam Zhang’s new novel is a bold encouragement to pursue one’s desires.
Trumpism hovers over the merger of the UFC and WWE.
The very reason we’ve managed to succeed as a species is gynecology.
A novelist transforms the physicist John von Neumann into a scientific demon.
The author of Americanah explains why freedom of expression is crucial to writers.
The cartoonist has written some of the great haters, slackers, and screwups in modern comics. His new graphic novel imagines if one of them grew up.
Her new translation is inviting to modern readers, but it doesn’t capture the barbaric world of the original.
A poem for Sunday
A new book looks at the “underground historians” of China who are resurfacing moments from the past that authorities would prefer be forgotten.
A new book explores the Chinese filmmakers, writers, and artists who are trying to uncover a past that the authorities would rather forget.
Across memoir and fiction, Fae Myenne Ng has explored the true cost of the Chinese Exclusion era.
A poem for Sunday
In Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Elon Musk, the focus on psychology diverts us from the questions we should be asking about the world’s richest man.
Loved and Missed shows what child-rearing is really like.
Ernie Bushmiller’s long-running comic strip, Nancy, helped establish the way we think visually.
Published in The Atlantic in 2000
The winding story of how a trove of 8,000 of the poet’s family objects were saved