In Iowa, we are banning "Ulysses," "The Catcher in the Rye," and "The Color Purple." Honestly, if you are a kid and turning to Ulysses for titillation when the internet is everywhere, we should be giving you a medal and a full-ride scholarship to the Iowa Writers' Workshop
If there are two main things Homer tells us about Achilles in the Iliad , it is that he is swift-footed, and his anger is deep and slow to mend. In many senses, this makes him the originator of The Fast and the Furious. In this essay I will