“A map grows no trees.”
—Alberto Blanco
—Alberto Blanco
In recent years, the online right has contested adaptations of epic in order to make an argument about masculinity. The Odyssey is their latest target.
Ann Scott’s “Superstars” captures the last gasp of pre-Internet counterculture.
The world inside the South African novelist’s Waiting for the Barbarians bears striking resemblance to Trump’s racist empire.
In the latest rendering of the epic, there is plenty to feel guilty about even if you did not mean it.
The big-budget movie keeps much of the violence and spectacle but none of the nuance and wit of the classical epic.
In The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy, A.J.A. Woods looks at how the Frankfurt scholars became the latest bogeymen for the contemporary right.