‘Odyssey’ Expert Accused of Echoing MAGA Attacks

Photo by Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pic MAGA’s latest culture war target, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, is “grandiose and superficial,” according to a world-renowned scholar on the Greek poem. But one prominent author thinks that Wilson is playing into MAGA’s hands. Literary legend Joyce Carol Oates jumped into the conversation to slam Emily Wilson, one of the foremost authorities on Homeric poetry and the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English, after Wilson called the film…