
Writing about re-reading, what's different the second time around, and why it matters.
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The Odyssey has two parts. The first is a convoluted story about a man’s difficult, ambivalent journey home to the island of Ithaca. The second is a straightforward account of what happens once he gets there.
These two portions of a single...
I started my most recent re-reading of The Odyssey well before the film crashed onto the shore of public discourse and finished it as those foamy waters were starting to recede. I managed to stay mostly dry throughout, reading only a few dr...
I have written two posts about my experience re-reading this amazing book by Boethius, a 5th century Roman statesman who had been on top of the world and suddenly faced losing it all. But I am just a regular reader—probably like you. Here A...
British troops during the evacuation from Dunkirk, France - June 1940.
The Iliad, as I have previously written, is a war story that begins with a focus on families. Leave Cancelled, a short 1945 novel by the British author Nicholas...
I’m currently re-reading a book I bought at a used book store in Los Angeles in the late 1990s. It’s a first edition (1945), hardcover version of Leave Cancelled, by the British writer Nicholas Monsarrat. I’d never heard of the book (nor th...
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My Substack, Re-Reading is a Gift, is about things I’m re-reading, what I notice the second time around—usually decades later—and why it matters.
Retired Classics professor and mezzo-soprano.
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