“It’s a family-friendly audiovisual spectacle, like an elaborate Fourth of July fireworks display—and with about the same level of narrative and emotional depth.”
Critics: Emily Wilson on The Odyssey (2026), London Review of Books
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“It’s a family-friendly audiovisual spectacle, like an elaborate Fourth of July fireworks display—and with about the same level of narrative and emotional depth.”
Critics: Emily Wilson on The Odyssey (2026), London Review of Books
“The Philosophers and their Apprentices have no monopoly on a general sort of appraisal as to how sociology is always limited. Sociologists can at least sometimes see that sociology always needs to overcome itself through difficult acts of self-examination. The purely negative, inert, undialectical, and wholly external critique of sociology that (Lane’s version of) Rancière promotes is actually worse than what they both seem to think sociology does to the rest of the world.”
Critics: David Inglis on Rancière’s Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, Education, Cultural Sociology (academic journal)
“There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.”
Critics: Emily Wilson on The Odyssey (2026), London Review of Books