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Memorial An Excavation of the Iliad

Alice Oswald

Matthew Arnold praised the "Iliad" for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since - but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its 'bright unbearable reality' (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves). To retrieve the poem's energy, Alice Oswald has stripped awa...

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Anat called it a beautiful, short, potent novel about a complex biracial gay relationship, family and loss, and said it was very moving.

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Another is the beautiful, beautiful novel Memorial by an author named Bryan Washington. It's short, it's potent, it's about an incredibly complex biracial gay relationship, about family, about loss, a...

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Anat called it a beautiful, short, potent novel about a complex biracial gay relationship, family and loss, and said it was very moving.

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Another is the beautiful, beautiful novel Memorial by an author named Bryan Washington. It's short, it's potent, it's about an incredibly complex biracial gay relationship, about family, about loss, and it's very moving.

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