CG Salamander and Sheena Deviah’s collaborative project, From Makaras to Manticores: Around India in 100 Mythical Creatures (Hachette India), is the perfect example of a book you would want to ...

Once in a while, a new Irish book comes along that just stops you in your tracks. This month Mark Joyce's superbly illustrated new book "Mythical Irish Beasts" is that book. It's a work of near magic, ...

What do Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and a book club for men all have in common? They’re mythical creatures, only seen in blurry photos taken by unreliable witnesses, and most people don’t believe ...

Mythical wildlife may not exist, but because of Todd Calgi Gallicano’s book, they will be alive in the imaginations of children and adults. Gallicano, an author who spent part of his childhood in ...

How do the stories we tell and the beliefs we hold shape the way we interact with the planet? A new book, "Looking for Hidden Folk: How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth," by author Nancy Marie Brown ...

One of the most powerful passages in The Iliad is in Book 18, when a weeping Greek soldier comes to the tent of Achilles and tells him that his lifelong friend Patroclus has fallen in battle, slain by ...

Every once in a while, a novel is so compelling that it changes your sense of place. Morowa Yejidé’s “Creatures of Passage” is that book. It is set in a mythological version of Washington, D.C.’s ...