mythology

Christopher Kennedy on Defining Prose Poetry and Working-Class Stories

Peter Mishler Talks to the Author of The Strange God Who Makes Us

 
By Peter Mishler  October 25, 2023
Cosmology

How We Humans Created the Universe

By Moiya McTier  August 17, 2022
Folklore

From World Wars to Airborne Fairies: How History, Myth, and Folklore Shape Our Stories

By Emma Seckel  August 3, 2022
Podcasts

On the Most Ambitious Literary Podcast in the History of the World

By Gabriel Pasquini  July 6, 2022
Mythology

On the Ancient Mysteries of Linen

By Victoria Finlay  June 16, 2022
Mythology

Why We Turn to Myths to Untangle Old Problems

By Jennifer Saint   May 4, 2022
Mythology

Why We Need to Revisit Old Myths to Create New Ones

By Michael Bazzett  January 27, 2022
Greek Mythology

Why Do We Return to the Greek Myths Again and Again?

By Literary Hub  January 11, 2022
Writing

How the Everyday Becomes Mythic Through Fiction

By Andrew Siegrist  October 29, 2021
Mythology

Mythologies and Re-Rememberings: On the Synchronous Moments of Writing a Novel

By Molly Aitken  July 1, 2021
Totalitarianism

Trying to Teach English Literature in the Wake of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

By Kim Echlin  January 15, 2021
Mythology

On the Mythologies of the Himalaya Mountains

By Ed Douglas  January 7, 2021
Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Andrzej Sapkowski on the Mythologies Behind The Witcher

By Literary Hub  December 10, 2020
Folklore

On the Lies We Tell in Fiction

By Ruth Gilligan  November 10, 2020
Theater

The Story Behind One of Hadestown’s Most Beloved Songs

By Anaïs Mitchell  October 28, 2020
End Times

Paul Kingsnorth’s Transhuman Apocalypse Unfolds in an Old English Fenland

By Ellie Robins  October 27, 2020
NewberyTart

Pediatrician and Author Sayantani DasGupta on Stories as Good Medicine

By NewberyTart   October 1, 2020
Westerns

On the Anti-Western Genre Set in America’s Surreal Borderlands

By Mike Soto  August 26, 2020
The Hub

Seattle’s new hockey team is called the Kraken (which is a literary character?)

By Jonny Diamond  July 23, 2020
Fantasy

On the Biggest Collection of Fantasy Tales Since WWII

 July 21, 2020
Mythology

There Be Dragons. In This Essay.

By Arra Lynn Ross  July 20, 2020
Folklore

On Celtic Storytelling, From the Bardic to the Mythic

By Martin Shaw  July 17, 2020
Fascism

On the Revisionist Histories at the Heart of Fascism and Populism

By Federico Finchelstein  May 21, 2020
Covering Climate Now

Faster Than We Thought: What Stories Will Survive Climate Change?

By Omar El Akkad  September 16, 2019
Whiteness

What Is an Australian National Literature and Who Creates It?

By Nam Le  May 6, 2019
Religion

Finding a Spiritual Home in the Weirdness of My Polish Heritage

By Michelle Tea  April 9, 2019
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