Madeline Miller’s “The Song of Achilles” has become much more than a best-selling mythic romance; it’s a rite of passage for some LGBTQIA+ readers. First published in 2011, this Greek war epic — told ...

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This past week, I read “The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller, and I have a lot to say. The novel is a fictitious retelling of the classic Greek myth of Achilles and his companion and rumored lover ...

When we read Homer’s classic epic The Odyssey in my seventh grade English class, I found myself ultimately bored with the epic. Perhaps I was too young to understand its beauty, or maybe some part of ...

To say that The Song of Achilles is simply a retelling of Homer’s Iliad from a different perspective would be to overlook the depth of emotion that Madeline Miller spent 10 years infusing into the ...

Jeremiah Brown asked his 2 million TikTok followers what to do after being voted off the hit series. The answer has him, and his fans, reading “The Song of Achilles.” By Alexandra Alter After he was ...

It takes a truly gifted writer to make a song this old feel this beautifully new. That The Song of Achilles offers a different take on the epic story of Achilles and the Trojan War is not, in itself, ...

"Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama," by Alison Bechdel. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 304 pages, $22 hardcover. Bechdel's first graphic memoir, "Fun Home," focused with dark humor and candid ...