Before Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey hit theaters, I crammed Emily Wilson's acclaimed translation of Homer's epic poem. (As the Greek rhapsodes intended—an audiobook narrated by Claire Danes!) Nolan even said that Wilson's take on Odysseus was an inspiration for the film. So, was Wilson, a classics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, impressed with Matt Damon's Odysseus? The full-scale Trojan horse? Not at all. Read what Wilson wrote in her scathing review of Nolan's movie below. —Brady Langmann, senior entertainment editor
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“I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script,” wrote Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English.
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Since it released worldwide a couple of weeks ago, Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated adaptation of The Odyssey has inspired plenty of conversation. Generally, the critical consensus has been overwhelmingly positive. In his review of the film, Esquire’s Anthony Breznican wrote, “This film represents a team of masters, all working at the peak of their powers to breathe impressive new life into this 2,800-year-old tale.” It’s almost as if Elon Musk's desperate attempts to spark an anti-woke backlash were all for naught.
However, one critic arguably has the opinion that trumps all others: Emily Wilson, the academic whose 2017 translation of the text took the literary world by storm (and caused some controversy along the way). She not only the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English, but her work was heralded in academic circles for capturing the poem's musicality through her choice of meter, and for undoing centuries of Christianization, misogyny, and euphemism that had been projected onto translations of the text. Her version has been flying off the shelves since then, and some would argue that it's the definitive modern version of the text. Nolan himself even referenced Wilson's translation as a key inspiration for his take on the film.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci will be appearing this week before a Senate committee chaired by Senator Rand Paul who, in this case, is Inspector Javert with a noisy lawnmower. Paul has been after Fauci over the latter's work during the Days of Covid-19. In preparation for the hearing, Paul released selections from Fauci's personal diaries in advance of the latter’s testimony so that the various flying monkeys would have something to screech about in advance. And screech they have done.
However, there are portions of the diaries that are beyond entertaining. All of these involve interactions with El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago, who was, at the time, suggesting that we all shoot up Clorox and deploy ultraviolet suppositories so the pandemic would be over by Easter.
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For the best part of a decade, watch collecting revolved around a single kingmaker: the steel sports watch. Everyone wanted a Rolex Submariner, a Patek Philippe Nautilus or an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak. These were the kinds of manly wristwear that looked as they they could survive a saturation dive before accompanying you to dinner.
All three are undeniably great watches. But times have moved on. The most interesting wrists in 2026 aren't wearing hulking steel sports watches.
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