Daniel Mendelsohn
American writer
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Whatever his lifelong fascination with the epic, Nolan has merely remade Homer’s hero in his own image, just as he has imposed on Odysseus’s adventures values utterly foreign to Homer,
- Mendelsohn wroteThe New York Timesnytimes.com/2026/07…
This tormented, guilt-ridden Odysseus, stripped of humor and wit, seductiveness and cleverness, is a sibling of Memento’s anguished amnesiac, of Batman, of Oppenheimer, men tormented by pasts they wrestle with in different ways,
- wrote Mendelsohn, whose Odyssey translation came out in 2025The Independentindependent.co.uk/arts/enterta…
It’s not like we’re trying to sell you a lemon here,
- said Daniel Mendelsohn, a Bard humanities professor who has published his own translation of the poemHindustan Timeshindustantimes.com/entertainme…
The ‘Odyssey’ bequeathed to the West entire genres,”
- As the critic and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn puts it in the introduction to his recent translationThe New York Timesnytimes.com/2026/07…
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Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' earns ₹165.85 crore at box office
Hindustan Timeshindustantimes.com/entertainme…Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights
Forbes UKforbes.com/sites/katewieczorek…Emily Wilson’s Pan of ‘The Odyssey’ Ignites a Debate Among Classicists and Commenters
The New York Timesnytimes.com/2026/07…Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights
Forbes UKforbes.com/sites/katewieczorek…The Odyssey is set to cross Oppenheimer’s domestic box office haul in just 13 days
The Independentindependent.co.uk/arts/enterta…Scholar behind landmark Odyssey translation blasts Nolan film for style over substance
Gulf Newsgulfnews.com/entertainment/the…The Odyssey storms global box office with $264m opening
Guardiantheguardian.com/film/2026…Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights
Forbes UKforbes.com/sites/timlammers…‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’
TechCrunchtechcrunch.com/2026/07…Nolan was responding to a question from interviewer Hugo Travers, who publishes on YouTube under the name HugoDécrypte
TechCrunchtechcrunch.com/2026/07…The Odyssey has made IMAX 70mm a status symbol
Mashablemashable.com/entertainment/the…There’s heated debate on all sides when it comes to questionable casting decisions, modernized dialogue, whether Hollywood’s biggest star, Christopher Nolan (yes, you heard that right), simply used Emily Wilson’s liberal, feminist translation of Homer’s epic as inspiration or directly pulled from it, and more heavily debated topics surrounding the film over the last few months
Fox Newsfoxnews.com/outkick/analysis…Behind Christopher Nolan’s 6-country epic undertaking to bring ‘The Odyssey’ to the big screen
The Independentindependent.co.uk/news/christo…The first social reactions to Nolan's adaptation of Homer's epic arrived after the film's London world premiere and early press screenings
Mashablemashable.com/life/christopher…Romantasy, Sci-Fi, Ghost Story, High-Seas Adventure: It’s All in the ‘Odyssey’!
The New York Timesnytimes.com/2026/07…It’s satisfying enough as spectacle, albeit in that heavily CGI’d noughties vein, but the Homeric notion of heroism is almost completely eclipsed by the Hollywood one
Guardiantheguardian.com/film/2026…