The Iliad is a poem of violence, with many of the scores of deaths described in excruciating detail. But the fight is not ...

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A new book by the British cultural journalist Dorian Lynskey chronicles our centuries-old obsession with doomsday scenarios. By Jennifer Szalai Chilly thrillers, snowy fantasies and Alpine ...

The books also inspired the 2010 movie starring Logan Lerman and Alexandra Daddario ... Adult: This novel reimagines Homer’s “The Iliad.” The irresistible Achilles is the son of the sea goddess Thetis ...

The Iliad depicts the final weeks of the ten-year ... Whilst deciding not to censor the book, publisher Penguin Random House’s note made clear the reissue did not constitute an “endorsement ...

The Wrath of Achilles, a painting inspired by Homer’s Iliad - Heritage Images/Getty ...

He’s written about this fresh perspective for the first instalment of a new series from The Conversation. Rethinking the ...

By Wilson Wong This short scene conceals the names of 13 books published in the middle decades of the 20th century. See if you can find them all and build a reading list along the way.

From ancient epics to dystopian futures, 2025 is set to bring some of our favourite stories to the big screen.Last year, fans watched as directors adapted Colleen Hoover’s It Ends with Us (2016), to ...

We’re talking about the ones that you’ll abandon your other books to finish, sneak pages of at work, and fake colds to get ...

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