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The Odyssey
A Complicated Debate
It is beguiling that a movie based on one of the foundational stories of Western civilization should be both a record-breaking hit and the center of spirited debate.
Miles David Moore               

Sea Urchin Shells
 Scientifically known as tests, they are the hard, internal skeletons left behind after a sea urchin dies and its spines fall away.
The photography of
Jon Rendell
 

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Immune to Women and Sex
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
This is not a movie review. It’s a brief list of the sexless characters Nolan serves up.
Renate Stendhal

Open Secrets
(Georgio de Chirico is speaking)

As though pregnant, the earth stretched out before him.
 The traveler was not who he was. I am not who I am.

Brian George

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September 2026

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