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On First Looking into Wilson’s Homer: Womxn’s War for Words

27th November 202029th November 2020  Georgia Poplett

On reading Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey, Georgia Poplett started to consider the misogynistic history behind language and the way translated words have been used to harm and heal womxn.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Emily Wilson, George Bernard Shaw, Greta Gerwig, Homer, Keats, Languages, Life in Languages, Lilith, Little Women, Luce Irigaray, Odysseus, Penelope, the Pre-Raphaelites, The Yellow Wallpaper, Translation

The Pisces by Melissa Broder – a beautiful, effervescent novel rooted in Greek myth

28th July 201930th July 2019  Victoria Smith

Longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2019, Melissa Broder’s The Pisces is a modern day fable about a woman who falls in love with a merman. Victoria Smith reviews Broder’s debut novel alongside her earlier poetry and essays, Last Sext and So Sad Today.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Anne Carson, Bloomsbury Fiction, Circe, Daisy Johnson, Everything Under, James Joyce, Last Sext, Madeline Miller, Margaret Atwood, Melissa Broder, Mythos, Pat Barker, So Sad Today, Stephen Fry, T. S. Eliot, The Pisces, the Pre-Raphaelites, The Silence of the Girls
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