Recently, my friend and I decided to reread The Song of Achilles because something about the cold beauty of winter was a reminder of this book that both of us adore.This reread marks my third time ...

It takes a truly gifted writer to make a song this old feel this beautifully new. That The Song of Achilles offers a different take on the epic story of Achilles and the Trojan War is not, in ...

Her first novel, “The Song of Achilles,” awarded the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction, tells the story of Patroclus, the famous warrior Achilles’ closest partner. Miller’s story focuses on the ...

Achilles’ heel was not his heel, but his love for another man. Or so Madeline Miller tells it in “The Song of Achilles,” a novel that skillfully retells and embellishes Homer’s tale of the ...

Achilles lay there, fallen … tearing his hair, defiling it with his own hands.” Madeline Miller's brilliant first novel, The Song of Achilles , is the story of that friendship.

I wanted to take ‘A Song of Achilles,’ and I wanted to make it huge. I wanted to do a multi-season arc.” He was most attracted to the questions that arise from seeing a famous story through ...

Homer tells us what happened but not why. Miller’s “Song of Achilles” provides that back story, an exegesis that draws the personal and the intimate out of Homer’s virile action adventure.