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‘The Odyssey’ Rocks the Boat of History
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‘The Odyssey’ Rocks the Boat of History

By
Ana Yorke
/ 16 July 2026

Christopher Nolan’s “blank check” epic, The Odyssey, is a curiously bold, dark, and surprising take on the dangerous ways in which we create history.

Bob Dylan’s ‘The Nobel Lecture’ Requires a Tolerance for Sentimentality
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Bob Dylan’s ‘The Nobel Lecture’ Requires a Tolerance for Sentimentality

By
Christopher John Stephens
/ 7 November 2017

Are Dylan's thoughts the dismissible ramblings of an insecure autodidact still trying to impress the professors?

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‘The Lost Books of the Odyssey’ A Fleet-Footed and Agile Act of Creation

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Subashini Navaratnam
/ 1 May 2011
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Homeward Bound: Odysseus, Frogger, and a Simple Teleology of Play

By
G. Christopher Williams
/ 5 May 2010

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