Acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates had strong words for critics tearing into Christopher Nolan’s latest epic. Oates responded to Emily Wilson’s harsh review of The Odyssey, defending the filmmaker’s right to reimagine Homer’s classic. Joyce Carol Oates defends Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey after criticism from Emily WilsonJoyce Carol Oates defended Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey after Emily Wilson criticized the film in the London Review of Books. Oates compared Wilson’s language to “the crude language of MAGA folks attacking someone with ideas that differ from hers.” She also noted that Wilson “has benefited enormously from Nolan’s film.”