Recommended by Catherine Robson at NYU, we’re reading a reinterpretation of Antigone. Yes, we’re reading “Home Fire.”
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“Till We Have Faces” – Rereading the myth of Cupid & Psyche
We took the chance to read some C. S. Lewis with his retelling of an ancient myth, “‘Till We Have Faces.”
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We talked about the inaugural Canongate Myth novel “The Penelopiad,” Margaret Atwood’s work giving a voice to Penelope.
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Yes, most of us know we should have read “East of Eden” by now. And we haven’t. Well, we’ve amended that.
Read More“The Song of Achilles” – Rereading “The Illiad”
We’re going back to one of the oldest stories of time with “The Song of Achilles.”
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