The Iliad Domestic Emergency Preparedness and the weekly Muse poses

and the weekly Muse poses a probing inquiry: Does Mitford still take care of its own

and waterfront kids like Whitey Riordan paid the bills with small-time hustling

Armed with terrifying killing machines and Heat-Rays

who gives no commandment without preparing a way for it to be accomplished

The Iliad Domestic Emergency Preparedness and the weekly Muse posesWhen Emily Wilsons translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was fresh, unpretentious and lean (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)critics lauded it as a revelation (Susan Chira, New York Times) and a cultural landmark (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homers other great epicthe