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Caroline Alexander

Caroline Alexander, whose translation of the Iliad was published in 2015, is the author of The Endurance, The Bounty, and The War That Killed Achilles. Her journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Smithsonian, Outside, and National Geographic. She founded the Department of Classics at the University of Malawi.

The Guru of Athens

The Guru of Athens

Can age-old philosophy lead the way to happiness?

by Caroline Alexander | Monday, December 03, 2018
The sun-kissed spires and roofs of a Mediterranean city viewed from the shore

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea

In search of the places that inspired the Iliad—and the traces of upheaval, conflict, and migration that led to its creation

by Caroline Alexander | Monday, June 03, 2019

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The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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