Last January, in a fit of self-improvement, I resolved that 2020 would be the year I once and for all read works more timeless than timely. The two classics I first chose turned out to be — courtesy ...

A guide to the best translations, retellings and adaptations of The Odyssey to read ahead of Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film.

Out of the darkness, the epic poet Homer arrives to once again sing of the anger and devastation that is war. It is “An Iliad” like you’ve never seen, and celebrated stage, television and film actor ...

Delving into a 3,000-year-old mystery using astronomical clues in Homer’s “The Odyssey,” researchers said Monday they have dated one of the most heralded events of Western literature: Odysseus’ ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Only someone with divine blood would be capable of producing such masterpieces. What couldn’t be interpolated ...

The idea of a black Odyssey, inspired by Homer’s ancient Greek yarn, isn’t a new one: One version, a modernized drama, just hit the stage as a dramatic reading at the Denver Center Theatre Company’s ...