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Friday essay: I’ve been reading The Odyssey my whole life. Nolan’s film version is exhilarating – but not perfect

I first read The Odyssey during the summer holidays when I was 15 years old. Parked under the shade of the mulberry tree in our Brisbane backyard, I would read, grab a few mulberries, then read some more, my fingers sometimes staining the pages dark purple. It was a secondhand…

The Conversation

Reading Homer’s Iliad feels like scrolling through TikTok

I first picked up The Iliad because the cloth-bound red cover, stamped with gold flames, was simply gorgeous. So much for not judging a book by its cover. The Penguin Classics edition sat on my shelf for months before I finally opened it. For years, the text had felt inaccessible,…

The Conversation

How to use procrastination to your advantage

As medieval sages understood, putting things off – done well – can open the doors to creativity and purpose

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Aimee Lou Wood lends her voice to audiobook of Wuthering Heights – here’s where to listen

Revisit Emily Brontë’s classic in audio form ahead of the movie’s release

The Independent UK

Sales of Brontë’s Wuthering Heights skyrocket ahead of film adaptation

The number of novels sold rose nearly fivefold year on year in the UK in January, Penguin Classics reports, as Emerald Fennell’s hotly anticipated take is set for release next week

The Guardian - UK

The Cat by Georges Simenon review – Maigret author’s tale of a toxic marriage

The Belgian author’s genius comes to the fore in a dark domestic drama

The Guardian - UK

No Name in the Street; Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin – review

In the centenary of his birth year, the author’s voice is as necessary, human and sharp as ever in a reprinted short story collection and memoir from the 1960s and 70s

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African writer ruined by row with Graham Greene finally gets chance to shine

Fifty years after being accused of plagiarism, book is reissued in a bid to rehabilitate gifted Malian author Yambo Ouologuem

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Review: 'The Best of Everything,' by Rona Jaffe

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A Childhood: The Biography of a Place review – a classic of the deep south

Harry Crews’s unsparing portrait of his often brutal upbringing in 1930s Georgia is a window into a lost world

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Marvel comics join literary canon in special edition by Penguin Classics

Spider-Man, Black Panther and Captain America in black spine format complete with scholarly introduction

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