We don't know who, or even if, Homer was. Given threads of internal evidence in the "Odyssey", Robert Graves invents, or discovers, that the author of the poem was a woman, herself part of the epic action. He chooses the beguiling, clear-headed Nausi...

"Two Jews were traveling on a train..". Many Eastern European jokes – and several of the charming and often hilarious conversations in this book – begin this way. From all regions of the world and from all walks of life, the characters are young and...