The Rest is Literature audio round-up: Odyssey special
An Odyssean education (July 2026)
On First Looking into Nolan’s Homer
Oft I’d been told of the city of Priam
That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Nolan speak out loud his BRAAAM.1
The Book Club
The Book Club strictly covers novels, so they did Madeline Miller’s 2018 Circe.
The LRB Podcast
This interview accompanies Emily Wilson’s much-referenced review of the film.
The Symbolic World
This is my favourite because Pageau’s analysis is unpredictable. The keynote is ‘Christopher Nolan definitely knows what he’s doing.’
Non-Odyssean pods
Conversations with Tyler
How I Write
My favourite line from David Sedaris here is his chastening observation, ‘Just because this happened to me doesn’t make it interesting.’
The Lit Path
The London Review Bookshop Podcast
Until next month.
‘[A] very loud mix of brass and piano with a synthetic feel’. Holly Rogers et al., eds., Remediating Sound: Repeatable Culture, YouTube and Music (New York: Bloomsbury, 2023), p. 152.