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Penelope, Unravelled — On Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, and the Trickster Who Never Left Home

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has been out for five minutes and people are already arguing about the wrong things. The casting. The runtime. Whether Matt Damon can pull off a Greek hero. Meanwhile, the most interesting character in the whole epic is being ignored again, the way she has been for three thousand years. I’m talking about Penelope. Not the patient wife. The trickster.