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The Book Review
The New York Times
The week in books, literary news, and conversations with the authors behind them.
Sophie Elmhirst on the True Story of a Shipwrecked Couple
Today we want to bring back an episode from our archives.
It’s about a book that has real beach read vibes. There’s a lot of water. It’s a relationship drama. And it’s also a daring story of survival.
“Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession and Shipwreck" made it onto
This Author Says You Shouldn’t Be Intimidated by ‘The Odyssey’
If you can’t tell your Eurylochus from your Telemachus, fear not: Your primer on “The Odyssey” is here, just in time for Christopher Nolan’s new film adaptation of the 3,000-year-old epic.
Madeline Miller, who reinvented “The Odyssey” in her best-selling novel “Circe,” explains w