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HOMER'S LONELY PLANET
How The Odyssey can change your life, by the author of Cathedrals of the Flesh: My Search for the Perfect Bath.
By Alexia Brue
When the Pillaging Goes Horribly Wrong After ten years away, wouldn't you hurry home to your spouse? Not Odysseus. A guy's weekend gone horribly wrong.
Kleos, Continued Centuries after Troy fell, another man went there in search of glory.
Contemplating Kleos on the Windy Plains of Troy Our columnist's odyssey begins in Troy, a place of both kitsch and glory.
A Book Group Fails to Meet Our columnist's two-woman, Odyssey-reading book club gets off to a rocky start.
What Would Odysseus Do? Why reread The Odyssey without an assignment or book group? Our columnist has her reasons.