epic

Like Homer’s epic, it describes a journey affected by prevailing Mediterranean winds, called here by their local names: Levante, Ponente, Scirocco, Mistral.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Several readers wrote to us recommending Rushdie’s magical realist epic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Based on Homer's epic, Nolan's film retraces the hero Odysseus in a perilous journey to his home on the island of Ithaca after the Trojan War in the 12th century BCE.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

The Game of Thrones origin story is epic in both ambition and execution – it has taken seven years to reach the stage, clocks in at three hours 45 minutes, and features a 36-strong cast.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Two epic defeats in less than a week, and John Kennedy took it very personally.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

There’s Big Ridley, the visionary filmmaker of large-scale epics who has spent nearly 50 years creating some of the most indelible worlds in modern movies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Even if Christopher Nolan‘s film adaptation of “The Odyssey” is a smash hit, Matt Damon doesn’t think we’ll see a boom in epics of a similar scale.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

The network had long built its identity on adult prestige — crime sagas, antiheroes and sprawling family epics — not stories centered on high schoolers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

The play will be "a rambunctious comedy of deception and disguise inspired by the grand swashbuckling epics of stage and screen", and will reach the stage in early 2027, the announcement said.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026

King praised the students who had, as he put it, “fashioned...a creative protest that is destined to be one of the glowing epics of our time....”

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson