Emily Wilson on How Nolan Used Her Material

On July 16th, I walked through the Upper East Side under apocalypse-orange skies covered in smog – “Odyssean weather”, someone would call it later that night – to attend a talk at 92nd St Y: “Emily Wilson with Sarah Ruhl: The Odyssey Onscreen.” Christopher Nolan’s adaptation uses as its primary source Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey, which can’t seem to leave my life.