An ancient Chinese story tells of two court astronomers, Hsi and Ho, who got drunk and failed to predict an eclipse of the sun. This grave oversight led to them being executed, ...

The fantasy author Ayana Gray recommends gripping novels where the monsters are heroes, villains and everything in between. By Ayana Gray Ayana Gray is a New York Times best-selling author whose young ...

Humans. Where to begin? Myth may be the place. Before we invented books, then movies, then the internet, to wield influence and entertain ourselves, we created myths. In many of these stories, there ...

The new story collection by Mark Haddon takes inspiration from Greek myths, H.G. Wells and Snoopy. By Hilma Wolitzer Hilma Wolitzer is the author, most recently, of the story collection “Today a Woman ...