There's so many great fantasy books that it can be hard to know what to read, but everyone should tackle these all-time great ...

Circe, by Madeline Miller ( / Little, Brown) Advertisement. Circe's loneliness causes her to develop a compassion that is rare among the gods, as well as a work ethic, which is perhaps rarer still.

Madeline Miller, author of our December pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questions on “Circe,” and Jeff announces the January ...

Circe by Madeline Miller, $16, Amazon. Eighth grade Miller was thrilled to be reading this mythology on her own for the first time. "I was making notes in the margins, you know, I was so excited.

Madeline Miller's new novel, "Circe," the follow-up to her award-winning "Song of Achilles," similarly creatively re-imagines classical mythology. She comes to the Festival of Books April 22.

“Circe” by Madeline Miller (Little, Brown) As much as I loved Miller’s first novel, there were moments in which the stubborn pride of its many male heroes wore me down, ...

That is one of the reasons why author Madeline Miller decided to retell these classic tales in her own two outstanding novels, The Song of Achilles and Circe: To give a voice to the women in the ...

Madeline Miller’s Circe. With an origin story spanning thousands of years, Circe, Greek goddess of witchcraft, evolves from the unwanted and bullied daughter of Helios, Titan god of the sun, to a ...

Madeleine Miller's lush, gold-lit new novel is told from the perspective of Circe, the sorceress whose brief appearance in the Odyssey becomes just one moment in a longer, more complex life.