Tag Archives: Odyssey

On Odysseus & Trump’s Desecration

By Robin Bates | Published: January 21, 2025

Odysseus lambasts the suitors for desecrating all that is holy. One can imagine him doing the same to Trump.

By Robin Bates | Published: January 3, 2025

My book “Better Living through Lit” this past year was only one of several making the case that literature can be social dynamite.

By Robin Bates | Published: December 12, 2024

Penelope’s suitors are like Trump and his supporters, looting the household and then calling other people lazy grifters asking for handouts.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 22, 2024

Good lit can function like social dynamite, but it’s dynamite that’s needed for growth. Parents against growth therefore attempt to ban them.

By Robin Bates | Published: August 5, 2024

Watching the Olympics, I thought of the games in “The Odyssey.”

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By Robin Bates | Published: July 2, 2024

I announce my forthcoming book and contrast it with a similar book–“Dangerous Fictions”–coming out soon.

By Robin Bates | Published: December 19, 2023

Doerr’s “Cloud Cuckoo Land” is testimony to the power of story to save us when we need saving.

By Robin Bates | Published: November 12, 2023

In Huey’s poem, a veteran who has seen combat frames his experience in terms of “The Odyssey.”

By Robin Bates | Published: November 1, 2023

Literary afterlives, such as we encounter in Homer, Virgil, and Dante, are as much about this world as the next.