After bogging down in several of those, I had just finished Stephen Mitchell’s propulsive, muscular rendering of “The Iliad” (Free Press, 2011) when Miller’s “The Song of Achilles ...

One of the mysteries of "The Illiad" is the outsized grief Achilles displays over ... as possible," she said. The book's title is derived from the song that hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts ...