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False Memories and Manufactured Myths: Growing Up in a Conspiracy Theory Household

False Memories and Manufactured Myths: Growing Up in a Conspiracy Theory Household

Faith Merino Wonders How We All Got So Much Wrong

By Faith Merino | April 28, 2021

Marie Mutsuki Mockett Recalls the Myth of the Giant Catfish Ōnamazu

Marie Mutsuki Mockett Recalls the Myth of the Giant Catfish Ōnamazu

Emergence Magazine Podcast">This Week From the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | March 1, 2021

The Monster That Everyone Saw and No One Cared to Talk About

The Monster That Everyone Saw and No One Cared to Talk About

Colin Dickey on Tensions Between Folklore and Mainstream Science

By Colin Dickey | July 21, 2020

On the Biggest Collection of Fantasy Tales Since WWII

On the Biggest Collection of Fantasy Tales Since WWII

The Big Book of Modern Fantasy">Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Preview The Big Book of Modern Fantasy

By Jeff and Ann VanderMeer | July 21, 2020

There Be Dragons. In This Essay.

There Be Dragons. In This Essay.

Arra Lynn Ross on Old Norse Translations and Decoding Myths

By Arra Lynn Ross | July 20, 2020

Gatsby: A Blues Fable of the Great Depression"> Greil Marcus on <em

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Reconsidering the American Myth of a Distant Paradise

By Greil Marcus | April 30, 2020

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What the Retelling of Myths Reveals of the Teller

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On Our Relentless Quest for Bigfoot

By John Zada | August 1, 2019

Lydia Kiesling Wants to Rewrite the Myths of the American West

By Nick Ripatrazone | September 5, 2018

To Live Like the Women of Viking Literature

To Live Like the Women of Viking Literature

Linnea Hartsuyker on Growing Up in a House Where "Princess" was an Insult

By Linnea Hartsuyker | August 10, 2017

Actual Social Justice Warriors: The Women of Celtic Mythology

Actual Social Justice Warriors: The Women of Celtic Mythology

War Leaders, Druid Priests, Poets, Lovers, and Mothers of their People

By Philip Freeman | April 10, 2017

Three Tales of Baseball in Honor of the World Series

Three Tales of Baseball in Honor of the World Series

History of American Sports in 100 Objects">From Cait Murphy's History of American Sports in 100 Objects

By Literary Hub | October 25, 2016

Why Superheroes Are Bigger Than Their Stories

Why Superheroes Are Bigger Than Their Stories

Captain America is Not a Nazi!

By Bob Proehl | June 27, 2016

Donald Trump Has Set Fire to America

Donald Trump Has Set Fire to America

On William Faulkner, White Trash, and 400 Years of Class War

By Lyz Lenz | May 24, 2016

The Unstoppable Myth of Alejandra Pizarnik

The Unstoppable Myth of Alejandra Pizarnik

A Poet of the Night, and Love, and Terror, and Tragedy

By Enrique Vila-Matas | May 17, 2016

Jenny Diski Understood Things That No One Else Could Explain

Jenny Diski Understood Things That No One Else Could Explain

For Her, Everything Was Readable

By Laura Marsh | April 29, 2016

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