This not your grandparents’ Bulfinch’s Mythology. Bernhiemer has commissioned stories from contemporary writers from all around the world. Their contributions, while inspired by a “classic” myth, are wholly fresh and new. What’s fascinating is that which the Ancients perceived as important or problematic, remain so even now and easily translate into modern sensibilities. Indeed, these…
REVIEW: THE APOTHECARY by Maile Meloy
With illustrations by Ian Schoenherr Normally I don’t read young adult books for review. I think this is due mostly to the fact that I never really read them when I was a young adult. I sort of skipped that and went straight on to adult titles (The most notable exception being the…