Much of the contemporary LGBTQ+ literature we are exposed to today makes being gay the only thing the book is about ... doing the LGBTQ+ community a painful injustice. “The Song of Achilles” cover.

so when Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles came up on my reading pile, I recalled The Persian Boy and devoured Miller’s offering from cover to cover in less than a week. Like all ...

when Miller's "The Song of Achilles" arrived. Read these two books together is my advice. In “The Iliad,” Homer roots Achilles’s wrath in sullenness and injured pride. During the siege of ...

To say that The Song of Achilles is simply a retelling of Homer’s Iliad from a different perspective would be to overlook the depth of emotion that Madeline Miller spent 10 years infusing into ...