Despite its length, its poetic turns and its monumental status, “The Odyssey” follows a simple premise: man departs, man gets lost, man arrives safe and sound at destination. “The Lost Books of the ...

THE ODYSSEY: A MODERN SEQUEL (824 pp.)—Nikos Kazantzakis, translated by Kimon Friar—Simon & Schuster ($10). Masterpieces of literature are hard to come by and even harder to recognize. This is ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block. MICHELE NORRIS, host: And I'm Michele Norris. Now, a literary question. Why mess with the classics? There's no shortage of books, good ...

A handwriting mystery involving a rare 1504 edition of Homer’s ancient Greek epic poem “The Odyssey” has been solved. The University of Chicago Library had offered $1,000 to anyone who could decipher ...

Make America Read Again. But not just any books. Pick up Homer’s “Odyssey,” anything from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dr. Seuss and Nathaniel Hawthorne before these classics are mobbed. I kid you not.

Don't let Google decide who you trust. Make SFGATE a preferred source so your search results prioritize writing by actual people, not AI. Add Preferred Source Many 21st century readers have noticed ...

“An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, And An Epic” is the story of what happened after Mendelsohn’s 81-year-old father, Jay, enrolled in his college course on Homer’s “Odyssey.” While the book is family ...