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i know everyone has been dying for my take on emily wilson's review of nolan's odyssey and so here it is. it should be an embarrassment to whoever edited it. when a writer files copy like that, you should know how controversial it will be and go above and beyond to help them shore up their take.

i don't agree with a lot of wilson's points, but from an editor's perspective, i can see some ways that the entire argument could be much stronger and more cohesive, not as a film review per se but as a far more direct comparison to the original poem and a critique of what nolan chose to change.

i think what nolan chose to change about the poem is FASCINATING (i loved the movie. i also love wilson's translation by the way). but i also can understand why somebody would dislike it, because he made some very unusual and specific changes.

anyway, if one of y'all is ever filing a story like that, you should know what you have, and if an editor takes a very light touch to it, you should know that you are getting fucked. i've had it happen to me before; there are absolutely published takes of mine that i think are dumb af. it happens...

Totally unrelated to her review of the movie, I immediately put her translation of the Odyssey on my Libby hold list. Truly excited to read a modern translation by someone who is such an expert.