An ancient wine vessel depicts the scene from Homer's Odyssey where Odysseus confronts Circe after she transforms his men into pigs. (Metropolitan Museum of Art / (DMN file)) Madeline Miller's re ...

and an artist with fearful agency, Circe is one figure from the Greek pantheon who was waiting to be discovered and given ‘her’ story. Madeline Miller has done this with Circe, where this ...

Editor’s note: Our December pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This” is Madeline Miller ... myth, Circe is the daughter of the sun god Helios, so here artist ...

Madeline Miller took 10 years to ... s homage to the Iliad and a startling original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist,” wrote author Emma Donoghue. Miller’s second novel — Circe — ...

But you don’t need to, since Madeline Miller’s “The Song ... that no prophesy can forestall human grief. Miller’s new novel, “Circe,” takes a circular, rambling path in telling the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Madeline Miller was five, her mother read her bedtime stories that weren't the usual children's fare. "Sing, O goddess, the ...

For readers who enjoyed “A Song Achilles,” there’s much to relish in Madeline Miller’s second novel, a retelling, in part, of “The Odyssey” from Circe’s perspective. The feisty and ...

Novels that explore Greek mythology from the point of view of “silenced” women now constitute their own popular genre: Madeline Miller’s “Circe” (2018), Natalie Haynes’s “A Thousand ...

Madeline Miller, the New York Times bestselling author of Greek mythological retellings “Circe” and “The Song of Achilles,” is virtually coming to Spokane. On Thursday, Miller will talk ...