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Classical topics have enjoyed somewhat of an upswing in popularity and attention recently in theater and print alike. Fagles's translation of The Odyssey has garnered not only widespread critical praise but also plaudits for its accessibility to the average reader. With Walker's production of another ancient classic, the play The Bacchae, to go up at the Agassiz this fall, a dramatic reading of the epic would seem natural enough...
Fagles made special effort in his translation to avoid the old-fashioned type of stilted, impenetrable rendering that forces the reader into saccadic conniptions in the search for a sentence's subject. With a smile he recognizes such age-old traps of translation in his book's postscript: "Not a line-by-line translation, my version of The Odyssey is, I hope, neither so literal in rendering Homer's language...
...hotel also boasts wonderfully cheesy attractions, such as the 3-foot tall "Niagara Smalls," a palm reader and a tuxedo-clad lounge singer who puts his own corny twists on well-worn love songs like "Love Will Keep Us Together" and "I Honestly Love...
...telling them "I am gay" automatically means that I am fabulous, or interested in advancing certain gay rights, or promiscuous. And I think that any straight person who really thinks this way can never really appreciate individual gay people as they are. I hope that for you, the reader, words "gay," "lesbian," etc., carry fewer connotations now than they did when you were first reading the article. I am indisputably gay and a male, but if the term "gay male" is going to be a charged one, then I don't want to be described that way; unless you know...
...action. There is also Rosa, a former grocery store cashier who has enchanted Paddy for a decade, but must now decide whether she can live with the life he has chosen. The romance between Rosa and Paddy is a fascinating but short lived device that leaves the reader stranded. Kelly creates some unforgettable characters, but there are also characters he should have forgotten about in order to tighten the fevered pace of the novel...