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In this special hour-long edition of NYRSeminars, Daniel Mendelsohn, Editor-at-Large of The New York Review and author of the most recent translation of Homer’s epic, discusses Christopher Nolan’s polarizing blockbuster adaptation of the Odyssey.

The Trump administration has shared few details and little evidence.

Uganda has successfully contained the recent Ebola outbreak and is once again considered Ebola-free.

California is set to launch a database for school support staff, such as bus drivers and janitors, with substantiated claims of egregious misconduct. Setting up a similar system for public school teachers, however, is proving more complicated.

The Michigan Senate primary is the next biggest test for the direction of the Democratic Party.

What a recent scandal reveals about the country’s political culture.

Under an intensifying trade war, parts of northern Michigan are feeling the financial pain. But with a president intent on conflict and a congressman silent on the issue, these Michiganders see no sign of relief.

Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on healthcare fraud doesn’t even mention them.

Last summer brought Europe's most destructive wildfire season on record. This season is on track to break it.

Researchers explain how El Niño and global warming are combining to create "the haves and the have-nots. "

In Western states, climate change is starting to overwhelm the old techniques that used to keep fires from raging out of control.

Is carbon offsetting a Trojan horse for the urgent recovery of seabed biodiversity?

A horrific tragedy occurred in Kyiv on 14 May, when an X-101 missile struck a nine-story residential building in the Darnytskyi district during Russia's…

If the psychoanalytic encounter is a meeting of two internal worlds, why does the material world matter? Do patients. ..

The man in whose image North Korea was made was formed in very particular circumstances. Over a life corresponding. ..

In Francis Spufford’s Nonesuch it isn’t only the author but his characters who can change history. Iris and Geoff. ..

Catherine Breillat is an intellectual filmmaker. Her films pose ethical questions about desire and aesthetic questions. ..

‘Our press you know, is to give birth to every monster in the vicinity, ’ Virginia Woolf told Clive Bell. Hogarth’s. ..

I don’t​ remember when I first learned to make cyanotypes, but I had loved Anna Atkins’s prints for many years. ..

In February​ 1840, Alfred Tennyson was in a bad way, argumentative and restless. Thomas Carlyle, whose own public. ..