Joyce Carol Oates Defends 'The Odyssey' and Slams Translator for Scathing Review Joyce Carol Oates has come to the defense of Christopher Nolan, whose film adaptation of "The Odyssey" was recently panned by translator Emily Wilson in a scathing review published in the London Review of Books.
In her critique, Wilson lambasted Nolan's take on Homer's classic epic as "grandiose and superficial.
" But in a sharp rebuke, Oates accused Wilson of speaking "in the crude language of MAGA folks," implying that the translator's tone is not only disagreeable but also intellectually dishonest.