The Sunday dozen

John Wyver writes: My usual compendium of links to stuff that this week has caught my eye and engaged my brain. My header image is of Collage for Losing the Garden, 2026, oil on paper, from the glorious exhibition ‘Garden without Seasons’ of recent work by Clare Woods that opened this week (until 8 November) at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery. Beautiful paintings, collages and screenprints, beautifully displayed in beautiful spaces. I wasn’t sure whether to highlight the Odyssey articles that Bluesky at least has been buzzing about all week. You have probably read some, or all, of them already, but they are so interesting, and I think so revealing about contemporary culture, that I have brought together the key ones. An uncomplicated man: peerless translator of Homer Emily Wilson kicked things off for the LRB [£; limited free access]with this response to Christopher Nolan’s film, which was widely taken to be a takedown. Which in many ways it is, but it is also richer and more complex than…