To read or not to read? Is that the question?

When Albrecht Dürer drew his famous image, he had never seen a real rhinoceros. Public domain

In June this year, a six-month-old interview went viral.

Sarah Underwood is a 23-year-old British author whose debut YA novel, Lies We Sing to the Sea, has been described as a “sapphic reimagining of the Odyssey”. In an interview with a student magazine at Imperial College London, Underwood said that she had never read the Odyssey. No, not even in translation.