I recently polished off a book that has been on my "to read" shelf for some years now, the 1973 translation of Hesiod's "Theogeny," "Works and Days," and Theognis' "Elegies," translated by Dorothea ...

If you find yourself a little confused by Ayad Akhtar's latest novel, Homeland Elegies, that's by design. "I wanted to find a form that would express this confusion between fact and fiction which ...