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Emily Wilson to retranslate The Odyssey for final time after film row and sales boom

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The Independent UK · Sep 2

Emily Wilson to retranslate The Odyssey from scratch after declaring Nolan’s version ‘abysmal’

Translator says she’s presently ‘about halfway through’

The Independent UK · Sep 2

Emily Wilson to retranslate the Odyssey from scratch

Wilson, whose 2017 English translation of Homer’s epic poem inspired Christopher Nolan’s box office hit, is revisiting it after criticising the film adaptation

The Guardian - UK · Sep 1

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Emily Wilson's 'Odyssey' became a cultural flashpoint. Now, she's retranslating the whole thing

Emily Wilson's 2017 translation of “The Odyssey” is a million-seller

The Independent UK · Aug 28

Fall books: Fiction takes the spotlight in bookstores during the midterm season

Election news will likely fill the headlines this fall, but among book buyers fiction will likely have top billing

The Independent UK · Aug 21

The Odyssey becomes biggest R-rated movie of all time

Sir Christopher Nolan's blockbuster epic The Odyssey has scooped another record by becoming the biggest R-rated movie of all time ahead of Ryan Reynolds' superhero movie Deadpool and Wolverine.

BANG Premier · Aug 21

‘I felt so inspired’: Guardian readers on trying Homer’s epics after seeing The Odyssey

Readers describe how Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster has ignited or reawakened their interest in classical texts

The Guardian - UK · Aug 14

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Sirens call: Super Netball heading for wrangle over name of new Sydney team

New owners SEN have lodged a trademark application for ‘Sirens’ but a Sydney-based ice hockey team with a 20-year history has the same moniker

The Guardian - AU · Aug 10

The Odyssey becomes Christopher Nolan's highest-grossing movie

The Odyssey has become the highest-grossing movie of acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan's career after making $1.104 billion at the global box office.

BANG Premier · Aug 10

Should a well-read snob see Nolan's Odyssey? Ian Warden agonises

The bogan blockbuster creates a conundrum.

The Canberra Times · Aug 7

Why Christopher Nolan turned Circe into a vindictive witch

I’ve taught “The Odyssey” to college students for over a decade, including in a course on witches in Western culture. I suspect my students would immediately notice that the Circe in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of “The Odyssey” is a departure from the one who appears in Homer’s ancient poem.

The Conversation · Aug 6

Emily Wilson renews critique of Nolan’s The Odyssey with review of ‘emotionally empty’ film

Translator Emily Wilson writes that Nolan’s adaptation ‘grandly insists on the importance of human kindness, while the camera shows us an entirely different set of values’

The Independent UK · Aug 6

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey gives UK poetry sales an epic boost

Poetry sales surpassed £8m in the first 30 weeks of 2026 and are expected to reach a record high this year thanks to blockbuster adaptation of Homer’s 2,700-year-old poem

The Guardian - UK · Aug 4

Nolan’s film could make The Odyssey the most sought-after book in the US

The nearly 2,700-year-old epic poem is flying off shelves at bookstores and libraries after the blockbuster film came out

The Guardian - US · Aug 3

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The Guardian - US · Aug 3

Nolan’s Odyssey shows what happens when a leader’s violations are rewarded

The Greeks learn at Troy that breaking the rules works, then carry the lesson home. Nolan’s film shows how an exception becomes a habit of power

The Independent UK · Aug 3

Christopher Nolan says amateur film criticism has a ‘fundamental flaw’

Oscar winner’s adaptation of Homer’s Greek epic has caused heated debate

Salon · Aug 2

Nolan’s Odysseus had to be Matt Damon

The recruitment of Matt Damon and other A-listers to sell a Greek myth makes sense

The Conversation · Jul 31

In Homer’s epic, a bold princess helps Odysseus home – but not in Nolan’s film. Who is Nausicaa?

In Homer’s Odyssey, Nausicaa is a tall, gutsy teenage princess who finds a naked and helpless Odysseus washed up on her shore, gives him her brothers’ clothing, and instructs him on how to appeal to her mother, Queen Arete, for help to get home to Ithaca. She is crucial to…

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Cinemablend · Jul 30

The Odyssey’s Translator Defends Criticizing The Lack Of Sex Scenes And Food Looking 'Horrible'

Emily Wilson explains why she wanted Homer’s hero to be hungrier.

The Independent UK · Jul 30

Joyce Carol Oates defends The Odyssey from Emily Wilson’s ‘inappropriate’ attack on movie

’It seems odd that this director has drawn such angry criticism,’ she argued

The Guardian - UK · Jul 30

‘The crude language of Maga folks’: Joyce Carol Oates criticises Emily Wilson for criticising Nolan’s Odyssey

The novelist suggested Wilson should have been ‘a wee bit more thoughtful and respectful’ towards a film-maker who may have helped boost her book sales

Euronews · Jul 30

'Crude language of MAGA’: Author Joyce Carol Oates defends 'The Odyssey' after translator's scathing review

The cultural debate over Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ continues, with Pulitzer Prize-finalist Joyce Carol Oates defending the film following a scathing review by translator Emily Wilson, who wrote that the film had “nothing convincing to say.”

Bangkok Post · Jul 30

Nolan's 'Odyssey' boosts sales of mythology tales in UK

LONDON - Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey has not only lured legions of fans to cinemas, but sparked huge interest in the United Kingdom in Homer's epic poem and other Greek and Roman mythology works.

Bored Panda · Jul 28

Every Blunder ‘The Odyssey’ Translator Pointed Out While Eviscerating Nolan’s Hit Adaption In Raging Review

The acclaimed filmmaker credited her work as an inspiration. Her review, however, is anything but flattering.

The Guardian - UK · Jul 28

First Thing: Pentagon accused of disrespecting war dead as Trump threatens to resume Iran war

Controversial move to classify Iran war as two separate campaigns criticised as attempt to minimise casualty figures. Plus, the man who started an animal shelter after a dog saved his life

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