Emily Wilson’s Odyssey, Pat Barker’s Silence of the Girls, and Madeline Miller’s Circe speak the lost and muted voices of ancient Greek women ...
Eleanor Johnson
Eleanor Johnson is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages (University of Chicago Press, 2013), Staging Contemplation: Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama (University of Chicago Press, 2018), and two collections of poetry, The Dwell (Scrambler, 2009) and Her Many Feathered Bones (Achiote, 2010). 
Mysteries
In medieval England, craft guilds—nailmakers, woolworkers, saddlers, grocers—designed scenes from Biblical history, beginning with Genesis, coursing through the life of Christ, and ending with ...