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How Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’ fascinates filmmakers, including Christopher Nolan

Universal Studios announced that Christopher Nolan will helm a film adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey, the classic Greek epic that narrates Odysseus’ challenging voyage back home after the Trojan War. ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’, a 2000 satirical comedy-drama musical film, was written, produced, co-edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and is loosely based on The Odyssey. ‘The …

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Christopher Nolan to adapt Homer’s ancient Greek epic, ‘The Odyssey’ as next project

The Hindu

Christopher Nolan’s next cinematic venture is of epic proportions. Universal Studios confirmed Monday that Nolan will direct an adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey, the ancient Greek epic chronicling Odysseus’ arduous journey home following the Trojan War. Homer’s epic has previously inspired countless adaptations, from the 1954 classic Ulysses to the Coen Brothers’ O Brother, Where Art Thou? Nolan earned his …

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4 weeks ago

Ulysses by James Joyce: My unhinged friends are rawdogging it, and it’s tearing our book club apart.

Slate

Don Gifford’s Ulysses Annotated is 694 pages long and retails for $35 on Amazon. The conventional wisdom states that Joyce’s prose is almost unintelligible, and in order to parse it, you must purchase one ancillary Ulysses guidebooks and references. Stuart Gilbert’s James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Study, advertised as an “analytical and systematic guide” to the novel, made landfall in 1932, …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Ground Game: Biden to host Trump, a GOP losing streak is broken, and Trump’s hush money verdict

Associated Press

Wednesday’s meeting may make for an awkward encounter, especially given that, after Biden ousted Trump in 2020, Trump offered no such White House invitation to Biden. Trump even left Washington before the Jan. 20, 2021, inauguration, becoming the first president to do so since Andrew Johnson skipped the 1869 swearing-in of Ulysses S. Grant. As he sought reelection, Biden constantly …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

The 26-year-old whose betting start-up predicted Trump’s triumph

The Telegraph

But unlike bookies, Polymarket, which uses technology similar to that of Bitcoin, operates more like a financial exchange. While Polymarket is the flavour of the month – it raised $70m earlier this year from investors including Trump backer Peter Thiel – gambling markets have often been a better indicator of who is likely to win an election than pollsters, according …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Lure of Magic: A Journey Through a Tuberculosis Sanatorium

Hindustan Times

The Magic Mountain is a humorous and thought-provoking novel that explores the allure and dangers of magical worlds. The story follows the journey of Hans Castorp, an aspiring engineer who finds himself drawn into a world of his own making in a tuberculosis sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland. The novel explores themes of idealism, fascism, and the allure of dangerous ideologies. …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Nazi-obsessed terrorist who stabbed asylum seeker at hotel in protest against small boat crossings is found guilty of attempted murder

Daily Mail

A Nazi-obsessed terrorist who stabbed a visitor to a hotel used by asylum seekers had prepared a terrorist manifesto to be released after the attack in which he dubbed himself 'The Gardener', it can now be reported. Callum Ulysses Parslow, 32, from Worcester, stabbed a 25-year-old Eritrean asylum seeker twice in the chest during the attack at a rural hotel …

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2 months ago

CdM’s Emilie Steinman, Huntington Beach girls stand out in O.C. cross-country championships

LA Times

Corona del Mar’s Emilie Steinman runs in first place in the girls’ varsity medium schools race during the Orange County cross-country championships at Oak Canyon Park in Silverado on Saturday. Steinman crossed the finish line in 18 minutes 27.4 seconds, earning the win in the girls’ medium schools varsity race on Saturday in the Orange County cross-country championships at Oak …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Coolidge, Pharrell Williams and more visit L.A. Times Studio at TIFF

LA Times

Fall festival season is once again in full swing, and The Times’ entertainment team is on the ground at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival to bring you all the news — including our TIFF Daily newsletter, as well as photo and video highlights from the Los Angeles Times Studio at RBC House. Chris Sanders from the film “The Wild …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

No. 6 Ole Miss opens against Furman with highest preseason ranking since 1970

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! KEY MATCHUP An Ole Miss defense that stocked up in the transfer portal against an offense that lost its starting quarterback, top running back and the four offensive linemen who played the most snaps. The Ole Miss transfer group includes former Texas A&M defensive lineman Walter …

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5 months ago

Biden pulls out of election: How rare is it for US presidents to withdraw?

Al Jazeera

United States President Joe Biden is the first sitting president since 1968 to drop out of a presidential race. After weeks of mounting pressure, United States President Joe Biden on Sunday dropped out of the November presidential election. Biden himself endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for the party’s nomination, but the Democratic National Convention, scheduled for August, is where Biden’s …

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5 months, 1 week ago

J.D. Vance Donald Trump’s VP: Unfortunately, his beard is pretty good.

Slate

In the culmination of one of the more bewildering political transformations in recent memory, Donald Trump has named J.D. Vance was a beardless guy for ages before he plowed into Ohio’s open Senate seat, so we’re actually capable of determining whether Vance looks better with facial hair. JD Vance, Mike Faist, Timothée — it’s possible that we're looking at a …

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6 months, 1 week ago

If you’re a book nerd, today is the most important day of the year

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6 months, 1 week ago

Delhiwale: A Joyce walla

Hindustan Times

Can fiction save a life? It did for a young “jumna paar” poet and music student in east Delhi’s Mayur Vihar Phase 3. Mukul is one of those rare Delhiwale who have read “cover-to-cover” a book universally acknowledged to be among literature’s most difficult novels—James Joyce’s Ulysses. As the world prepares to celebrate the annual Bloomsday on 16th June, the …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Magic on the Amalfi Coast | Review of ‘The Gentleman from Peru’ by Andre Aciman

The Hindu

If you thought Andre Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name was the pinnacle of breathtaking romance, wait till you read his latest novella — about a gentleman from Peru talking to a bunch of Americans on the Amalfi Coast. Beginning on a note of light suspense — as is Aciman’s style — ‘The Gentleman From Peru’ takes off with a …

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7 months ago

A renowned, mysterious photographer of the American civil war

Hindustan Times

THE TREES are cloaked in mist. Yet its maker, Timothy O’Sullivan, is “a bona fide mystery”, according to Robert Sullivan in “Double Exposure”, a new book about the photographer. With his bulky camera and a travelling laboratory fashioned from an army-ambulance wagon, O’Sullivan soldiered through the civil war with the Union army, shooting pictures for Brady and then Alexander Gardner, …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Civil War General William T. Sherman’s sword and other relics to be auctioned off in Ohio

Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Bidders will fight with their dollars next week at an Ohio auction house for the sword of the Civil War Union general who led a scorched-earth campaign across Georgia and coined the phrase “War is hell.” General William Tecumseh Sherman’s wartime sword, likely used between 1861 and 1863, are among the items that will be open to …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Orange mum organises free kids sports gear swap amid cost of living crisis

ABC

As the cost of living rises and budgets are stretched, there's one expense Taylah Power refuses to cut — her children's sport. "Someone putting their kid through a new sport was able to come and get hockey gear … the stick he actually got was brand new in the plastic so that's even better," Ms Power said. "We've had families …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas impeached by House Republicans

NPR

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas impeached by House Republicans Enlarge this image toggle caption Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images The House of Representatives has voted 214-213 to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for "willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law" in enforcing border policy and "breach public trust." Sponsor Message …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

House Republicans Unveil Impeachment Charges Against DHS Secretary Mayorkas

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Republicans contend Mayorkas is guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors” that amount to a “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” on immigration and a “breach of the public trust.” Impeachment, they say, is “Congress’s only viable option.” “Alejandro N. Mayorkas willfully and systemically refused to comply with the immigration laws, failed to control the …

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1 year ago

Book Review: ‘Soldier of Destiny’ traces Ulysses S. Grant’s complicated route before the White House

Associated Press

Ulysses S. Grant’s standing among the presidents has improved in recent years, with critically acclaimed biographies by Ron Chernow and others offering a new perspective on his time in the White House. That relationship is the centerpiece of John Reeves’ enlightening “Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant.” Reeves’ book isn’t a comprehensive biography, and …

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1 year, 2 months ago

No. 16 Mississippi scores 10 points in fourth quarter to rally for 27-20 win over Arkansas

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Ulysses Bentley IV scored the go-ahead touchdown with 7:49 remaining as Mississippi put together two consecutive fourth quarter scoring drives to rally to beat Arkansas 27-20 on Saturday night. You want to win these kind of games.” The Rebels got a decisive 75-yard, 12-play scoring drive, …

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1 year, 2 months ago

No. 20 Mississippi rallies past No. 13 LSU in fourth quarter for 55-49 victory

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Ole Miss survived a final play incomplete pass to the end zone from the 25-yard line by LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels that sailed slightly above Chris Hilton Jr., sandwiched between two Rebel defenders. We’re down two scores in the fourth quarter and it would have been …

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1 year, 5 months ago

John Cho and Ken Jeong open doors to the camaraderie they shared on the sets of ‘The Afterparty’ Season 2

The Hindu

Fans of Community are all too familiar with the power of Spanish genius El Tigre Chino and how his knowledge has the power to bite people’s faces off. I’m just very, very, very, very grateful.” “How come I did not know this?” exclaims John Cho, a skilful actor in his own right famous for his roles as Hikaru Sulu in …

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How Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’ fascinates filmmakers, including Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan to adapt Homer’s ancient Greek epic, ‘The Odyssey’ as next project

Ulysses by James Joyce: My unhinged friends are rawdogging it, and it’s tearing our book club apart.

Ground Game: Biden to host Trump, a GOP losing streak is broken, and Trump’s hush money verdict

The 26-year-old whose betting start-up predicted Trump’s triumph

The Lure of Magic: A Journey Through a Tuberculosis Sanatorium

Nazi-obsessed terrorist who stabbed asylum seeker at hotel in protest against small boat crossings is found guilty of attempted murder

CdM’s Emilie Steinman, Huntington Beach girls stand out in O.C. cross-country championships

Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Coolidge, Pharrell Williams and more visit L.A. Times Studio at TIFF

No. 6 Ole Miss opens against Furman with highest preseason ranking since 1970

Biden pulls out of election: How rare is it for US presidents to withdraw?

J.D. Vance Donald Trump’s VP: Unfortunately, his beard is pretty good.

If you’re a book nerd, today is the most important day of the year

Delhiwale: A Joyce walla

Magic on the Amalfi Coast | Review of ‘The Gentleman from Peru’ by Andre Aciman

A renowned, mysterious photographer of the American civil war

Civil War General William T. Sherman’s sword and other relics to be auctioned off in Ohio

Orange mum organises free kids sports gear swap amid cost of living crisis

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas impeached by House Republicans

House Republicans Unveil Impeachment Charges Against DHS Secretary Mayorkas

Book Review: ‘Soldier of Destiny’ traces Ulysses S. Grant’s complicated route before the White House

No. 16 Mississippi scores 10 points in fourth quarter to rally for 27-20 win over Arkansas

No. 20 Mississippi rallies past No. 13 LSU in fourth quarter for 55-49 victory

John Cho and Ken Jeong open doors to the camaraderie they shared on the sets of ‘The Afterparty’ Season 2