Meanwhile, Kyle Paoletta reports from Maine on Troy Jackson, the logger poised to replace Graham Platner as the state’s Democratic Senate nominee after Platner’s disastrous bid crumbled.

It’s been a journey for everyone, not least Odysseus, who as of late has been transported to the big screen in Christopher Nolan’s box-office-blowout adaptation of the epic poem. Nolan cuts out “so much that is funny, beautiful, witty, and poetic,” Katha Pollitt argues. Christian Lorentzen calls it “joyless.”

-Alana Pockros

Associate Editor, The Nation