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April 2026

  • Colourful mosaic of Empress Theodora and her attendants

    Dame Averil Cameron obituary

    Historian whose sparky, innovative Byzantines challenged the stereotype of a stagnant society with nothing new to offer

September 2025

  • Problem solver ... the poet and playwright Tony Harrison at the Edinburgh international book festival in 2007.

    ‘The man who came to read the metre’: Yorkshire poet Tony Harrison was the National Theatre bard

  • a detail from Medea by Frederick Sandys (1868)

    Book of the day
    No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes review – a thrilling take on the Golden Fleece myth

August 2025

  • Christopher Rowe

    Other lives
    Christopher Rowe obituary

    Other lives: Linguist, translator and philosopher known for his work on Socrates, Plato and Aristotle

June 2025

  • Post-impressionist style illustration of a woman reading Infinite Jest at a table

    Is it OK to read Infinite Jest in public? Why the internet hates ‘performative reading’

    Posts mocking strangers for cracking open classics have become popular. So where are we supposed to read them?

April 2025

  • Rachel Joyce is a British writer. She has written plays for BBC Radio 4, and jointly won the 2007 Tinniswood Award for her radio play To Be a Pilgrim.

    In brief: The Homemade God; Mythica; There Are Rivers in the Sky – review

    Long-buried truths leave siblings reeling when their father dies; a fascinating reclamation of Homer’s forgotten women; and still waters run deep in a centuries-spanning novel

March 2025

  • ‘He brings more to the role because of the life he’s lived’ … director Uberto Pasolini (right) on the set of The Return with Ralph Fiennes (Odysseus).

    ‘At 60, the bulk of your life is lived. What’s left now?’ Ralph Fiennes and Uberto Pasolini on their ripped and radical take on The Odyssey

    The actor and director on why The Return took 30 years to make, their joy at persuading Juliette Binoche to join them – and the punishing regime that earned Fiennes his battle-scarred physique

December 2024

  • Keith Rutter for Other Lives

    Other lives
    Keith Rutter obituary

    Other lives: Historian and numismatist of ancient Greece and wrote the standard work on the coinages of ancient Naples and Campania

November 2024

  • Alexander Garvie

    Other lives
    Alexander Garvie obituary

    Other lives: Glasgow University professor who specialised in the study of the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus

October 2024

  • Stephen Fry.

    Audiobook of the week
    Odyssey by Stephen Fry audiobook review – one hell of a trip

  • Stephen Fry poses for photographers upon arrival at the National Portrait Gallery Re-Opening on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 in London. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

    Book of the day
    Odyssey by Stephen Fry review – a jaunty version of Homer

September 2024

  • Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message<br>Embargoed to 1015 Monday December 18 Undated handout photo issued by Channel 4 of Stephen Fry who will deliver Channel 4's 2023 Alternative Christmas Message and condemn the reported rise in incidents of antisemitism since October 7 when Hamas attacked southern Israel. Issue date: Monday December 18, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story SHOWBIZ Fry. Photo credit should read: Channel 4/Adam Lawrence/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    In brief: Odyssey; Good Nature; Listen for the Lie – review

    Stephen Fry is at his best in the last of his quartet of Greek myths; new insights into how the natural world boosts our health; and a suspected killer is the subject of small-town gossip

July 2024

  • Mogens Herman Hansen

    Mogens Herman Hansen obituary

    Danish historian who transformed our understanding of the way Athenian democracy functioned

June 2024

  • Detail from a portrait in pastels of Marie Nordlinger by Federico de Madrazo.

    The French rose from Manchester: in search of Proust’s forgotten muse

    The poignant story of the Englishwoman Marie Nordlinger is told in a new book about her life with the writer

April 2024

  • Andrew Scott

    Audiobook of the week
    1984 by George Orwell audiobook review – a starry cast drive this powerful dramatisation

    Tom Hardy, Cynthia Erivo and Andrew Scott conjure menace and melodrama in this 75th-anniversary remake of Orwell’s classic

January 2024

  • The deer statues at the entrance to Rhodes harbor at sunrise<br>Sunrise. Deer Rhodes Greece City of Rhodes Greece, Statues of fallow deer at the entrance to Mandraki

    Book of the day
    The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes review – wonder lust

    From the Great Pyramid at Giza to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, a thrilling journey in the footsteps of the ancients

October 2023

  • Beard

    Book of the day
    Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard review – imperial exploits

    An enthralling analysis of the wild stories that circulated about Rome’s ruthless rulers

September 2023

  • Troy (2004) directed by Wolfgang Petersen.

    Book of the day
    The Iliad by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson review – a bravura feat

    Six years on from her translation of the Odyssey, Wilson revels in the clarity and emotional clout of Homer’s battlefield epic
  • A bust of Nero looking into a mirror

    ‘We’re not the first generation to wonder how genuine our leaders are’: Mary Beard on politicians as performers

    From Nero to Sunak, leaders have always put on a show for the public. The scholar explores the notorious Roman emperor’s fondness for acting and how the stage became a metaphor for power itself
  • Eric Bana and Garrett Hedlund in the 2004 film Troy.

    ‘The Iliad may be ancient – but it’s not far away’: Emily Wilson on Homer’s blood-soaked epic

    Following her acclaimed translation of the Odyssey, Wilson has turned to Homer’s other, darker poem. She explains how she got stuck for six months – and why it speaks to today’s era of conflict
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