In the opening scene of Homer's The Odyssey, Zeus complains to his favored daughter Athena that mortals love to blame the gods for their problems, when they themselves are the source of most of their ...

In Ava Pickett’s tense play, Michelle Dockery’s heroine returns to a Towie-styled world where the violence and misogyny are all too recognisable ...

"HELEN OF TROY, 1993" by Maria Zoccola (Scribner, 96 pages, $18). Near the end of poet Maria Zoccola's "Helen of Troy, 1993," the book's titular protagonist addresses the "gods of difficult things" ...

Lupita Nyong’o is refusing to defend herself from internet blowhards. Online bigots have been stewing over Nyong’o’s role in Christopher Nolan‘s upcoming adaptation of “The Odyssey” for weeks. The ...

Lupita Nyong’o isn’t backing down from the racist backlash over her casting as Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming “The Odyssey,” and she’s making it crystal clear that mythology doesn’t ...

In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee. By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be ...