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The Run-Up of All Run-Ups

5 August 2026, 7:58 pm

Because of the critical commotion aroused by Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of the Odyssey, I’m re-reading the Homer, a book a day, in Richmond Lattimore’s translation. The pleasure it brings is very great, not least because I’m an old man, and far less likely than I used to be to respond to the hero’s sufferings with …

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Janet Malcolm on Trials

28 June 2024, 10:13 pm

Janet Malcolm wrote three books centered on criminal trials: The Journalist and the Murderer, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and Iphigenia in Forest Hills. Each of the characters — two women and one man — at  the center of these books is, by any metric, strange, and each seems to be judged guilty by a …

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