The Virgin Mother's been called some unusual things: I've heard her likened to the Egyptian goddess Isis. I've read comparisons of her to the Greek maiden Leda (both, the comparison goes, conceived after a divine encounter). I suppose I expected something just as startling or subversive in a new short book by Colm Toibin, "The … Continue reading Leda and the New Testament?: new in bookstores
Category: Myth – fiction
Novels and other works of fiction that draw on myth and superstition to tell a story.
Relic, relique, reliquus: Part 2
Besides having a great name, Ransom Riggs is a good fellow (we once sat on a panel together at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books) who's in the habit of making relics. Sort of. As I was thinking about Umberto Eco and my personal artifacts in a previous post, Riggs came to mind. The … Continue reading Relic, relique, reliquus: Part 2
Vague horrors on Halloween
Henry James couldn't write a ghost story (all you Jamesians out there, my apologies - I can't help saying that), but another James could. Not William. Not Alice. I'm talking about Montague Rhodes -- neither kith nor kin to the other three. James was the fellow who impressed H.P. Lovecraft - an old Etonian, bachelor … Continue reading Vague horrors on Halloween
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