RaveThe Globe and Mail (CAN)\"Wilson is driven in her work by the awareness that antiquity is deeply alien, and yet resonates in surprising ways with the present. Activities like translation, central to the study of classics, enrich that awareness by raising new questions ... In the book’s final essay about translating The Odyssey, Wilson provides an illuminating breakdown of not only her choices in translating Homer but also the choices of those translators who came before and after. That one itself is worth the price of admission ... But the diversity of essays offers a crash course in thinking critically about classics in the same way author and fellow professor George Saunders’ A Swim in a Pond in the Rain analyzes some of the great Russian writers to generate ways of thinking about writing.\
