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The author explores the roles and personalities of Homer’s characters—the Greek beauty Helen, the enslaved girl Briseis, the Trojan royal Hecuba, the witch Circe, Odysseus’ patient wife, Penelope, and ...

Second Lady Usha Vance, a self-confessed bookworm, took the spotlight Thursday to plug her White House–backed summer reading challenge, stepping into a role left vacant by the mostly absent Melania ...

Yet, there are stories where women do not merely step into the tale, they are the tale. These are books that do not just have women in them, rather they unravel their worlds, their wounds, and their ...

A new report seems to suggest that The Odyssey teaser trailer will be coming soon for Christopher Nolan's next highly ...

In a new remount of Charles Newell's critically acclaimed 2011 production, Timothy Edward Kane brings blistering rage to this ...

Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, who assembled a suitably heroic cast featuring the likes of Brad Pitt, Peter O’Toole, Brian ...

What makes this show a candidate for the best solo show in Chicago theater history is that the telling comes at great cost to the teller.