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Madeleine Thien: ‘I ran in blizzards and -20C – all I wanted was to listen to Middlemarch’

The Canadian author on mountain running to George Eliot, powerful reminders from Omar El Akkad and the translation that brought Homer’s Iliad to life

The Guardian - UK

Epic win: why the Odyssey is having a moment

With new translations, a film starring Ralph Fiennes and a Christopher Nolan blockbuster on the way, Homer’s saga about a soldier’s return from battle speaks to our times in unexpected ways

The Guardian - UK

The Return: how each new retelling of The Odyssey opens up the worlds of the women in this epic

Waves crash across Ithaca’s rocky shore. “The city of Troy has fallen,” we are told, as the shuttle on Penelope’s loom flickers across the screen. “On the island of Ithaca, Queen Penelope still longs for the return of her husband Odysseus.” The camera then cuts to the wreckage of a…

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‘At 60, the bulk of your life is lived. What’s left now?’ Ralph Fiennes and Uberto Pasolini on their ripped and radical take on The Odyssey

The actor and director on why The Return took 30 years to make, their joy at persuading Juliette Binoche to join them – and the punishing regime that earned Fiennes his battle-scarred physique

The Guardian - UK

‘We recognise it in this very primal way’: Stephen Fry, Brie Larson, Chris Ofili and more on why we can’t get enough of Greek mythology

Love, death, grief, power, revenge: Greek tragedies get to the essence of the human experience. Here, writers and artists select their favourite plays, music and films inspired by ancient classics, from The Hunger Games to a Santana hit

The Guardian - UK

Conservative Influencer Says Slavery Should Be Reinstated 'If Everyone In the State Wants It': 'What Do I Give a S--t'

A conservative Los Angeles-based influencer stated that legislative issues should be left up to individual states to be decided: including whether or not slavery is enacted.

Latin Times

Hades II’s audacious, invigorating spin on Greek myth makes it worth playing right now

Developer Supergiant Games has released its hotly anticipated sequel to 2020’s Hades in an early-access, unfinished state – but its powers are already godlike

The Guardian - UK

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One-star ratings and threats: Review-bombing targets firms amid Gaza war

Businesses in the US are reporting fiery online backlash to Palestinian products and messages about the war in Gaza.

Al Jazeera

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October

Authors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

‘The Iliad may be ancient – but it’s not far away’: Emily Wilson on Homer’s blood-soaked epic

Following her acclaimed translation of the Odyssey, Wilson has turned to Homer’s other, darker poem. She explains how she got stuck for six months – and why it speaks to today’s era of conflict

The Guardian - UK

King and Queen meet their match in eight-year-olds Charles and Camilla

The primary school children, wearing hand-made crowns, were waiting to see the royal couple outside St Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh.

The Independent UK

Crazy, embarrassing, sad – but funny: how I finally embraced my X Factor humiliation

I spent 10 years burying the shame of being a failed contestant on the US version of the show. Then a 15-year-old helped me see it differently, says comedian Emily Wilson

The Guardian - UK

How Emily Wilson turned her teenage X Factor humiliation into comedy gold

A brutal take-down on the TV talent show led Emily Wilson into therapy. A decade later, she has turned her grim experience into award-winning standup

The Guardian - UK

Manchester Airport runway protest saw activists dig maze of 'cakehole' and 'worm' tunnels deep underground

Environmental activists became trapped deep underground 25 years ago when a tunnel collapsed during an attempt to stop the building of Runway 2

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Five books you'll like if you love The Odyssey

In The Odyssey, an almost 3,000-year-old epic attributed to a poet known as Homer, the soldier Odysseus narrates most adventures in retrospect. The poem, which tells of Odysseus’ return from the Trojan War, is both the origin of our concept of nostalgia (from the Greek nostos meaning the journey home)…

The Guardian - UK

Emily Wilson review – a portrait of the artist as an X Factor wannabe

Wilson relives her tumultuous turn as a teenage talent show contestant armed with laughter and song, topped with a touching tribute to her plucky younger self

Daily Mirror

Heartbroken vets in tears saying goodbye to puppy who suffered a 'painful death'

Oscar the rescue puppy battled to survive a deadly virus but sadly lost his life, despite receiving round-the-clock emergency care - it came as a huge shock to the vets who had very quickly fallen in love with him

Belfast Live

Euro 2022: Northern Ireland defender Abbie Magee playing generation game at finals

The Cliftonville star is determined to prove that "anything is possible" after reaching Euro finals

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The Independent UK

Northern Ireland must show ‘anything is possible’ at Euro 2022, Abbie Magee claims

Kenny Shiels’ side begin Euro 2022 against 1995 world champions Norway

Birmingham Post

The latest appointments and promotions in Welsh business

New roles include at Gower College Swansea, Gambit Corporate Finance, Knight Frank, Azets, Hodge, and Savoir Beds

Belfast Live

Northern Ireland Women squad named for Austria and England qualifiers

Kenny Shiels has named a 23-strong panel for next month's crunch double-header

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