On Nov. 3, The Iliad Bookshop in North Hollywood was set ablaze in what appears to be an act of arson. Boxes of books had been pushed in front of the back door and set on fire, and a manifesto ...

Wood writes about how Wilson has translated The Iliad with an eye toward returning to its immediacy and simplicity, sometimes clouded over by the poetic reaches of previous translators. Because of ...

The owner of the Iliad Bookshop showed up for work as usual in a ’60s-throwback tie-dye T-shirt that left no doubt of his status as a Deadhead. Within a few minutes, Dan Weinstein had greeted ...

The “Iliad,” composed around the eighth or seventh century B.C. by one or more poets we call Homer, is a poem of contradictions. It is the ultimate war narrative, but it covers only a month ...

Find out why "The Iliad" by Emily Wilson (translator) is on TIME's list of the must-read books of the year. Here's why it made the list.

Book of a lifetime: ‘The Iliad’ by Homer. From The Independent archive: Homer’s epic masterpiece isn’t just a poem, writes Madeline Miller – it’s a glimpse behind the veil of war ...

But “The Iliad” is not, of course, a poem purely about the clash of men. As Wilson deftly explains in her introduction to the new volume, the epic does not tell the story of the Trojan War.

The “Iliad,” a poem about war, death and suffering on the plains of Troy, has taken a back seat in recent decades to the other Homeric epic, the “Odyssey,” in some ways its sequel.

A mong the books I have returned to again and again throughout my life, seeking solace, wisdom, joy or self-understanding, Homer’s “Iliad” ranks very high. As with all enduring works of art ...