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The tellers of Greek myths, historically men, have routinely sidelined the female characters. When they do take a larger role, women are often portrayed as monstrous, vengeful or just plain evil. Broadcaster, writer, stand-up comedian, and passionate classicist Natalie Haynes turns the tables, putting the women of the Greek myths on an equal footing with the men. With wit, humor, and savvy, Haynes revolutionizes our understanding of epic poems, stories, and plays, resurrecting them from a woman's perspective and tracing the origins of their mythic female characters.

C. S. Lewis's reflections on Milton's Paradise Lost, the seminal classic that profoundly influenced Christian thought as well as Lewis's own.

This memoir is a meditation on the way imagination shapes life and how life, as it moves forward, shapes imagination. Kathryn Davis centers the book on the death of her husband, Eric. The book unfolds as a study of their marriage, its deep joys and stinging frustrations; it is also a book about time, the inexorable events that determine beginnings and endings.

Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman reflects on his childhood with his award-winning father, Sid Fleischman, and details his own path to becoming a writer in this book that is part memoir, part travelogue, and part reflection on craft and creativity.

From the ongoing podcast Movie Nightcap comes the Reserve Collection, a series of exclusive episodes featuring hosts Jill Tighe, Abe Saffer, and Nate Fisher. Each episode is a journey of discovery, fueled by beer. The hosts are joined by special guests and the conversations span from well-thought-out critiques to the most arbitrary and inane criticisms. As the night goes on, there is no telling where the discussion will go.

Using information from newly-declassified intelligence files and recovered military history, journalist Andrea Pitzer argues that far from being a proponent of art for art's sake, Vladimir Nabokov managed to hide disturbing history in his fiction--history that has gone unnoticed for decades.

How do master storytellers compel us? There have been many attempts to understand what makes a good story, but few have used a scientific approach. In The Science of Storytelling , Will Storr applies dazzling psychological research and cutting-edge neuroscience to our myths and archetypes to show how we can tell better stories, revealing, among other things, how storytellers—and also our brains—create worlds by being attuned to moments of unexpected change.

"Lovely art comes with unusual perspectives on familiar tales about lions, mice and trickster foxes." - Kirkus, starred review "Many children are familiar with Aesop's fables but it is a fair bet that few know much about the storyteller himself...(a) beautiful volume." - Wall Street Journal Honoring the path of a slave, this dramatic picture-book biography and concise anthology of Aesop's most child-friendly fables tells how a child born into slavery in ancient Greece found a way to speak out against injustice by using the skill and wit of his storytelling-storytelling that has survived for

Modern fiction author Jami Attenberg reveals the defining moments that pushed her to create a life, and voice, she could claim for herself.

What causes people to join--and more importantly, stay in--extreme groups? We secretly want to know: Could it happen to me? Amanda Montell argues that, on some level, it already has.