The World Does Not Need A 7-Hour Odyssey 

It isn’t often that a movie review in a literary journal like the London Review of Books goes viral—let alone a 4,234-word movie review—but that’s what happened this week when the LRB published translator Emily Wilson’s review, titled “An Uncomplicated Man,” of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Homer adaptation. The nicest thing she could say about the biggest cultural event of our day: “My teenagers had a good time.”  I have n