Translation

LOS ANGELES — Emily Wilson, the classicist who in a review eviscerated Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey," isn't done with Homer's epic. She's translating the ancient Greek poem again. "It's a complete retranslation. It's not a revision of the old version," Wilson told the Associated Press last week. "I'm about halfway through." Wilson's 2017 interpretation of the 2,800-year-old poem — the ...

There’s no mystery here: We all love a good detective novel. The genre, which arguably began with Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” has since launched a worldwide crime wave. And while there are many great mysteries written in English, you’re missing out if you don’t occasionally pick up a book in translation for a fresh take on the genre. Some authors are already well-known ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Classics scholar Emily Wilson was in Greece’s Costa Navarino last year when she heard the news that would change her life: Filmmaker Christopher Nolan was planning to release a star-studded adaptation of "The Odyssey," the epic poem that Wilson had spent years painstakingly translating from Homeric Greek into English. Nolan’s film crew, Wilson learned, had just left the Greek ...