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Homer’s The Odyssey still shapes modern storytelling, influencing films, novels, and television through its ideas of return, trauma, memory, and flawed heroes., Books, Times Now ...

When I’m asked by a Le Guin neophyte where to start, I rarely recommend The Dispossessed. I wouldn’t urge a stranger to leap into the deep end of a pool. Though the novel delicately explores matters ...