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Homer’s “Odyssey” has been translated into English countless times, with versions ranging from contemporary and accessible to highly poetic. A.O. Scott, critic at large for The New York Times Book Review, breaks down three translations and explains

Why do the characters in so many new novels insist upon eating each other?

Han Ong’s barbed, irreverent portrait of identity, class envy and flimflam deception in turn-of-the-21st-century Manhattan still resonates.

Kerri K. Greenidge appeared to lose her professorship at Tufts University after scholars began scrutinizing her 2022 book, “The Grimkes,” which is no longer listed on its publisher’s website.

Workers at a major publishing house have established what organizers are calling the largest union in trade book publishing history.

The novelist Dinaw Mengestu, who was elected seven months ago, said the article “continues this approach toward defending some rights while not defending others.”

The novelist Dinaw Mengestu, who was elected seven months ago, said the article “continues this approach toward defending some rights while not defending others.”

The best-selling author Kerri Maher recommends books that transport readers to the decade of space travel, counterculture and tumultuous societal change.

The author of an exhaustive two-volume biography, he was “fanatical about his approach to scholarship and infatuated with Melville,” a colleague said.

First, a primer from the author of “Circe,” Madeline Miller. Then, A.O. Scott on all the genres inside the 3,000-year-old poem.