Daniel Mendelsohn, author of our May pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questions about “An Odyssey.” Plus, Jeff announces ...

The way it’s working these days is that Google has three ways of obtaining books. They can go through their system of colleges and public libraries (the New York Public Library being perhaps the ...

HOMER: THE ODYSSEY—A New Translation by E. V. Rieu (31 I pp.)—Penguin Books (25¢). The U.S. public is getting this classic job for two bits because eleven years ago a young Englishman ...

The epic The Odyssey, written by Homer, is what philosophers call “canonical” or “classic” pieces of literature due to its prevalent lessons and moral displayed between the two main characters, ...