Laurence Alison and Vű Danh ’s version of The Odyssey comes to a final brutal and bloody conclusion with book four of In ...

You might say that Odysseus marks the first intrusion of personality into the Western literary tradition. For most readers, he is the most compelling, rounded character in both "The Iliad" and "The ...

THE ancients had, for the most part, an unquestioning belief in one Homer, who wrote — or at least composed — both the Iliad and the Odyssey, and indeed many minor poems as well, in the same literal ...

In one of the chapters in Zachary Mason’s dazzling debut novel, Odysseus the wily warrior and canny voyager from Homer’s epic poem emerges as the creator of his own legend. He’s a war-weary soldier ...

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 ...

Growing up, I used to miss reading about other countries from an Indian perspective. The opinionated desi travelogue that would tell you just how beautiful London’s parks are but how tasteless its ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. When his elderly father comes to stay, Daniel Mendelsohn buys instant coffee. The 81-year-old has made his feelings about the ...

Sahitya Akademi award winner, literary critic, classical musician and many other things besides, the eclectic Amit Chaudhuri has been short-listed for The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2015 for his ...