Tag: Feminist literature
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The Penelopiad
Overview Overview Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad (2005) is a compact, slyly subversive retelling of Homer’s Odyssey that re-centers the narrative on Penelope and the twelve maidservants who are hanged at the end of the original epic. Written as a faux-memoir from Penelope’s vantage in the Underworld, punctuated by a persistent, shape-shifting chorus made up of… Read more
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Overview This is a masterpiece. You are likely thinking, “Neilos says things like that in a lot of his reviews.” That’s true, but rather than saying, “no this time I really mean it” I will say that the reason is I read a lot of great books. Not all of them, what fun would that… Read more