August 2025 Readers' Picks
From a stunning new translation of Homer’s The Odyssey to competing accounts of our cosmic origins, discover what our readers have added to their bookshelves this month.
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A magnificent feat of translation, hailed by classicists and poets alike as a “momentous achievement”: “thrilling,” “rich and rhythmical,” “superb,” “mesmerizing,” “searingly faithful—yet absolutely original.”
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A celebration of the seemingly simple idea that allowed us to imagine the world in new dimensions—sparking both controversy and discovery.
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Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
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Drawing on the author’s experiences, this debut novel follows an interracial blended family living in Chicago in the 1990s.
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A thrilling exploration of competing cosmological origin stories, comparing new scientific ideas that upend our very notions of space, time, and reality.
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A cultural history of the celebrated (and derided) canned protein, in time for the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII, which solidified its place in global food culture.
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