The search tells him Pyramus and Thisbe were lovers in a Greek myth, children of rival families, forbidden to be together. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

So much so that some people believed that the Nhambiquara were essentially a myth. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

This idea is the basis of the origin story of the United States, a story that, like a myth, has been retold for hundreds of years. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Ring may have aspired, through ancient myth, to explain and explore basic human instincts, yet it was still, by and large, a series of oversized operas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Human sacrifice is such a charged subject that its practice by the Triple Alliance has inevitably become shrouded in myths. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’d asked after the myths to get her mind off the crops. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

But then she said, “The warehouse full of laudanum is also a myth, I suppose?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had come to believe in the myth of his own authority, and after all I am an outsider. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the animal myths have the ring of contemporary biologic theory, if you allow for differences in jargon. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The origins of this myth are prehistorical; it has been recorded in many forms. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I knew this to be an old wives' tale, a myth. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She has no distinct personality and she plays no part in the myths. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pershing’s expedition into Mexico after Villa had exploded one of our myths for a little while. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This belief, she wrote, was a “cultural myth.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Some boat owner in Florida misspells “Grandma” and look what happens: a myth is bom, a province is renamed, a Communist party newspaper is launched. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The myth of the Baker and Tamar, and its relation to my dad and candy bars and the love of his life. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Only later, as Sumerians progressed beyond logograms to phonetic writing, did they begin to write prose narratives, such as propaganda and myths. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was the embodiment of the myth that had made Permian so enormously popular—small, overachieving, white, fearless. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When asked which myth he meant to represent, Le Fevre replied that there were thousands of myths like that, with the woman a mortal and the pony a god. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A man of science, and yet you believe the myths. You believe in the might of reason, but you also believe in fairy tales. Goddesses and curses.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the time of chivalric myth this would be the beggar who turns out to be a king’s son. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My story discloses instead an essential myth of childhood—inevitable pain. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big bang had been spotted; the myth of the static universe was dead. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Japan’s rising dominance and its sometimes touchy relations with its neighbors make it more important than ever to strip away persistent myths and to find answers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s still hanging? That’s good news. You know the myth, then?” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Judicial systems are rooted in common legal myths. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Counterpoised against the myth of “race suicide” and “race deterioration” was the equal and opposite myth of racial and genetic purity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The story of Dad’s burn had become something of a founding myth: it was told over and over, to newcomers but also to the old. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

This in its small way is the very stuff of myths—the poor and suffering child who rises to glory, on a limited scale of course. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another interpretation of the US origin myth found in some history books is the idea that relations between the Native people and the European Americans should be viewed as a cultural conflict. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Were those old ladies at the fruit stand a myth, Percy? Was Mrs. Dodds a myth?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“So you—you don’t think it can be a fairy tale or a myth?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

‘No, I mean it’s a made-up myth. Not, like, an actual true myth.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The first step in mastering usage is to understand why the myth is wrong. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Yet the evidence to refute this myth was printed as long ago as 1880. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I swore I’d read that myth book cover to cover to make up for throwing my reader out of the window. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“No, you’re not. Because, well, she’s not real. Bat Lady’s just a myth the big kids use to scare the little kids. I mean, I don’t know anyone who has ever seen her.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

This brief overview of precolonial North America counteracts the settler-colonial myth of the wandering Neolithic hunter and vast unused and uncharted lands. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Half a myth and half a human being. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Something told me that in the myth Medusa had been asleep when she was attacked by my namesake, Perseus. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s also the myth about a python in the ceiling tiles, being fed by the lunch ladies. But that one’s not too interesting. Do you know about Red Witch Bridge?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It was nothing more than an urban myth, but Rowan believed it just enough that it kept him from wanting to stand out. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A multicultural interpretation of US history emphasizes only the “contributions” of groups that were ignored in the dominant origin myth, including Indigenous peoples, women, African Americans, and immigrants. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Some argued that although it was popularly assumed that tigers lived in Africa, this was a myth and they were native to Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that was the moment I realized that myths are just legends that everybody agrees on, and legends are just stories that got bigger over time. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There were many other strange doings and bizarre myths, legends, and fairy tales that, taken loosely together, had wound up giving the town and the Miracle Valley their names. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told it to me like a legend or a myth. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Our most powerful story, equivalent in its way to a universal myth, is evolution. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there are many so-called myths which explain nothing at all. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He beamed when he saw them and he cherished the fantastic myth of them, how they never gave up, how size meant nothing to them, how beautifully they played together. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weevil is only about thirty millimeters long, easily overlooked, but it has the makings of a myth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story of my dad—who for one day became the king of White Water Rapids—was just another myth in the making. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He continued his speech, citing more myths about TB, and when he was done the moderator thanked him for giving a provocative talk. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t wait to get back home and read more of them myths. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s comforting, the way in myths the heroes are all one personality flaw from perfection. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There is no myth of Oedipus on Winter. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Any large-scale human cooperation—whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe—is rooted in common myths that exist only in people’s collective imagination. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom, that snake is a myth now,” said Miles. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He wrote Odes in honor of the victors in the games at the great national festivals of Greece, and in every one of his poems myths are told or alluded to. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A very special kind of myth that creates itself. The best lies about me are the ones / told.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One more lie, one more piece of the myth he’d built for himself. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

No one believed in the old myths anymore. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

If you read many US history books, you may find several interpretations of the country’s origin myth. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

There are customs, attitudes, myths and directions and changes that seem to be part of the structure of America. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a way, it is the most unbiologic of all phenomena, violating the most fundamental myth of the last century, for it denies the importance of specificity, integrity, and separateness in living things. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the collection of Greek myths she had borrowed from Monsieur Labisse. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I guess that was my dad’s favorite myth, that he was everything to everybody. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Or...it looked like what the myths said it was. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He had crossed the Elmuthaleth at the Godslayer’s side and now carried, in his pocket, the tooth of a creature from the world’s oldest myth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s all just whispers and myths. Supposedly they haunt some ol’ broken-down church uptown by the river. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no. He thought I should know the background. You Occidentals perpetuate a good many myths too.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even though one book after another repeats this myth, the popularity of spices had nothing to do with disguising the taste of meat or fish that had gone bad. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“According to this, her original home was an island called Gozo just north of here. Calypso’s a Greek myth thingie, right?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The second myth is that in its appetite for death as spectacle the Triple Alliance was fundamentally different from Europe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My dad liked to believe I was as popular and adventuresome as he was at my age—a myth it had always seemed easiest to perpetuate. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They were not part of the great Mojo myth, which was the virtually exclusive preserve of white fans and white kids. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we for a moment can catch, through the myths he made, a glimpse of that strangely and beautifully animated world. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The presumption of innocence is now a legal myth,” he declared. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

With Homer, they are the most important source of our knowledge of the myths. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anthony DePalma, a veteran foreign and domestic correspondent, spotted an important twist in the destiny of immigrants, who loom so large in the great American myth. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Have you really never heard of Ovid's myth?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“A miracle! Behold the sun! I was beginning to think she had gone into a cave and vowed never to return, like the Japanese myth.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

As recent data shows, however, much of black progress is a myth. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I found myself actually watching that old fabric with interest until my mind reached back to those Greek myths. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

—The Great Father myth of the Aranda people of Central Australia All was in suspense, all calm, all in silence; all motionless and still; and the expanse of the sky was empty. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, these stories were just that, a collection of myths and folktales. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Right now, there’s something that interests me more than myths or magic. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He has become a myth like Paul Bunyan or Davy Crockett. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

If they did exist, he wanted to know whether the entire Holocaust story was blown out of proportion, and the account of millions being exterminated a myth. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I deal with facts, Miss Granger, not myths and legends.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

In the myths that Ali Shekari told me, they are the tragic result of a demon king who wanted to eat brains. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Even today, when so much about the myth of the macho no longer concerns me, I cannot altogether evade such notions. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were all sorts of myths and legends surrounding the lake. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It closely connected to our work on criminal justice issues; I believe that so much of our worst thinking about justice is steeped in the myths of racial difference that still plague us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was impossible, in spite of the endless arrests and confessions and executions, to be sure that the Brotherhood was not simply a myth. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I went to my room to read the myth book, but I couldn’t shake that soul-scraping emptiness John had opened up inside me. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

This is why people like the myths of Hercules and Rostam. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There were very few myths that matched even one factor. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh. Hold it. Hazel, wasn’t there some myth about a girl who repeated everything—?” “Echo,” Hazel said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When he was feeling easiest, usually around noon, I would ask him for a myth or tale. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I picked it because it had a rather stylish embossed dragon on the cover, but when I started reading I discovered it was an educated investigation into several common myths. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Yes, shadowy: a myth, a phantom: something which they engendered and created whole themselves; some effluvium of Sutpen blood and character, as though as a man he did not exist at all. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is the principal authority for the myths about the beginning of everything. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

That myth had brought her here to this sweltering darkness, balanced between life and death like the last leaf clinging to an autumn branch. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The list of the chief writers through whom the myths have come down to us is not long. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d heard myths like that: a kid with an old lady begs for shelter, and when the rude mortals refuse—boom, they get turned into banana slugs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But even if magic was so rare it was more like myth than reality, the people of that country still loved their fairy tales. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Look, this is going to sound weird. Do you know anything about Greek myths?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

First, you have to know about Shahryar, who was a Persian king—not in true history, but in myth history. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

One time, I found a book on Persians in the myth section. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“All this time, I thought they were just made up from myths and folktales, but...I was wrong.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Under the right circumstances myths can change rapidly. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, when you see them all together, it really does make you question the way we imagine our myths.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Soon the number of people who could grasp relativity had been reduced even further in the popular imagination–and the scientific establishment, it must be said, did little to disturb the myth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And repetition in larger narrative structures—as witness the shape of everything from fairytales and myths to The Gruffalo—is what makes them seem coherent, memorable, self-achieved, and, in effect, meaningful. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Legends, myths, gods and religions appeared for the first time with the Cognitive Revolution. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Chamber of Secrets was supposed to be a myth, wasn’t it?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The birth order myth is an example of the FAE in action. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until 1946, Japanese schools taught a myth of Japanese history based on the earliest Japanese chronicles of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is the only myth in which magic plays a decisive part, and it seems to have been a great favorite in Greece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days, when monsters were not just myths and legends, that was the way many lived. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The man you know as Serakeen—the bloodthirsty warlord, the Scourge of the East—is a fabrication, a useful myth we’ve concocted. But I’m afraid he doesn’t exist.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The myth was the strongest person you have ever known. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Look at the Norman myths about legendary figures like the Angevin kings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The alchemical worm Ouroboros of ancient myth. Its teeth are sunk in its tail.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s bad to have one’s myth shaken up like that. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The original Perseus was one of the only heroes in the Greek myths who got a happy ending. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to worry, Archer. Like Marmalade said, no one would stand for it. The Red War’s a myth.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Nor was it an old city with obscure origins draped in chthonic myth, like Athens or Thebes. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

It is an excellent example of Ovid’s way of dressing up a myth, for which see the Introduction. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

All her life, she’d heard about the Mist—the supernatural veil that obscured the world of myth from the sight of mortals. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was halfway through the title piece explaining how the myth of the dragon in all likelihood evolved from the much more mundane draccus when a scriv appeared at my elbow. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As a rule, he didn’t trust myths and folktales; they lacked accreditation. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The line between truth and myth is sometimes difficult to see. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

We can weave common myths such as the biblical creation story, the Dreamtime myths of Aboriginal Australians, and the nationalist myths of modern states. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A myth from a totally different culture, yet here she was, facing the king of the snake people. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Such myths give Sapiens the unprecedented ability to cooperate flexibly in large numbers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since large-scale human cooperation is based on myths, the way people cooperate can be altered by changing the myths—by telling different stories. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The intimacy of it, the comfort of other voices giving credence to their private myths, prepared them to meet their wives with less distance than they might otherwise bring home after fishing. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She married a man who soon left her; that man became a myth; and then that myth returned home and proved to be just a man after all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is actually a thing and not just an urban myth. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I thought that was just some science fiction myth.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The story told by myxotricha is as deep as any myth, as profoundly allusive. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma used to talk about her favorite horse, Cassandra, named after some doomed woman from ancient myth. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

If Levi-Strauss is right, myths are constructed by a universal logic that, like language itself, is as characteristic for human beings as nest- building is for birds. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a persistent myth, incidentally–and one propounded in many serious books–that Ussher’s views dominated scientific beliefs well into the nineteenth century, and that it was Lyell who put everyone straight. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I didn’t exactly believe in the giant turtle myth. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

There is nourishment in the desert for myth, but myth must somewhere have its roots in reality. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rock that looked enough like bones to spawn a myth, with a boulder here and there in the rough shape of a skull? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Here, in the middle of myth and the Bridge of Forgetting, the landscape was different. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The myth goes like this: Once upon a time, people cared about using language properly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then there are others where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing, or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high-colored magical confusion takes permanent hold. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A myth of what the frontier had been, the Wild West legend, was taking hold in the popular imagination, and it would not be long before people defined Smith by it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ekon Okojo, who was not an academic, knew better than to believe in myths and folktales—they lacked accreditation—but there was one thing he believed in with certainty. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I never thought of that. You know, there’s a goddess with six arms in Maialen myth. Think of her.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

This fact is now generally accepted; and we do not have to try to find in every mythological heroine the moon or the dawn and in every hero’s life a sun myth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The American war effort had made Johnson’s Great Society a myth, King said, and had created a “troubled and confused society.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the ancient myths, gods favoring mortals often hid them away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And they would rather subscribe to the myth of Trayvon Martin, slight teenager, hands full of candy and soft drinks, transforming into a murderous juggernaut. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

According to the most modern idea, a real myth has nothing to do with religion. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But myth was the ordinary terrain of his mind, whereas it had never occurred to him that the Godslayer might have a mother. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Martial myths are as believable as Tribal fables of jinn and the Nightbringer. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The chief difference between them and our modern scientific myth of the Big Bang is that science is self-questioning, and that we can perform experiments and observations to test our ideas. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apollonius of Rhodes told at length the Quest of the Golden Fleece, and in connection with the story a number of other myths. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they will truly become American and create a nobler basis for their myths. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

This myth about spontaneous combustion would be accepted as scientific fact far longer than might be imagined. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

To have got this far by 1670 is still impressive, if not as impressive as the myth Newton later cultivated so assiduously. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Robben Island itself was becoming a sustaining myth in the struggle, and they wanted to rob it of some of its symbolic import by removing us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

How briefly the anthropologists treat the Greek myths is noteworthy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

This statue records one of the oldest human myths, the story of the Virgin Mary—the only human to bud like a vuvv. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“That’s the biggest high school myth of all lime, Finn,” Dad said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They filled his biographical vacuum with suitably large Wild West myths: knocked-over banks, rodeo stardom, daring exploits in the Indian wars. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days, working in the mines was almost as much of a rite of passage as circumcision school, a myth that helped the mine- owners more than it helped my people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The myths as we have them are the creation of great poets. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They came down from the skies,” went the myth—or the history, if indeed it was all true. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My history professors thought nothing of telling me that my search for myth was doomed, that the stories I wanted to tell myself could not be matched to truths. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

—A myth from Maiana, Gilbert Islands First there was the great cosmic egg. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

You have not yet grappled with your own myths and narratives and discovered the plunder everywhere around us. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

No flowering cactus burning myths in the desert. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the person in a Greek myth who makes one of the gods stop caring about being a god. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Never mind that it is true whereas myths are not; it is filled with symbolism, and this is the way it has influenced the mind of society. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isabelle read the stories to Hugo, and he remembered hearing some of the myths when he was in school. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“The line between truth and myth is sometimes difficult to see.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

According to historian Joel Williamson, the idea that a particularly cruel racism was somehow unique to poor white farmers and laborers was an upper-class myth. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I felt far from my home streets of Johannesburg; I was in the Africa of myth and legend for the first time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a very low level the following is the process of a myth. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The science of medicine at the end of the eighteenth century still relied a great deal on ancient myths and folk remedies. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

There is a lot of oversimplification here, and too much shorthand for modern purposes, but the essential myth is recognizable. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a relief, that one small entry, the one myth among hundreds that claimed the existence of good vampires. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Variations of this theory appear in medieval myths and folklore. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The more Piper learned about being a demigod, the more convinced she was that Cherokee legends and Greek myths weren’t so different. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Greek myths favored by the Ptolemies featured similar relationships. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The Hebrew creation myths say that the earth was chaotic and void before God showered it with light and formed its features. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes relations with neighbouring bands were tight enough that together they constituted a single tribe, sharing a common language, common myths, and common norms and values. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As much as we wanted it to be true, it was nothing but a myth.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

His heart swelled at the sight of the creature that was a myth to his people, and he laughed and shouted, “Go tell the Old One to come, you wind-worm!” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Like a mermaid, the city is half fantasy, teasing us across a sea of myth. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

All this gushing adds to the myth of Kareem in my mother’s matrimonial fancy—the suitable boy, the boy with tameez, the one boy to rule them all. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Scholars want to close their eyes to the truth. Ghuls, wraiths, wights, jinn—they’re just stories. Tribal myths. Campfire tales. Such arrogance.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The joke was that to my seventh grade English class, I had made my father a myth, like djinns, like Rostam, or like Mike Maguffy’s girlfriend from summer camp that nobody else knows. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There are no myths or legends that can trick you by the time you’ve put something in your mouth and you’re digesting it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

For years, the notion was unproven, somewhere in the realm of received wisdom or suburban myth. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists have traced the beginnings of theater back as far as 2500 BCE, to the ancient Egyptians and sacred plays involving the myth of the god Osiris and his wife Isis. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Before we begin our tour of the drug war, it is worthwhile to get a couple of myths out of the way. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“A lot might a been myth too. You never know. But one thing we do know, them cells about my mother ain’t no myth.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When Boo had mentioned a council, Aru had imagined stern summer camp counselors...not the very people from the myths and tales that had been crammed into her head since she was a toddler. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The injunctions against the wrong kinds of investigation were so sharp that the parson-naturalists did not even question the myths of creation; it was the perfect separation of church and mental state. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I am a myth,” Kote said easily, making an extravagant gesture. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So C.P. turned to another myth to explain the bizarre situation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The speech, like the myth of its offhandedness, is one thing that appears another. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

With the world watching, the new organization carrying the American banner into space would have to be “clean, technically perfect, and meritocratic, the bearer of a myth.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s not their fault that they’ve been brainwashed into believing silly myths.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The second myth is that the drug war is principally concerned with dangerous drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t tell me you believe in myths of jinn and efrits and wraiths that kidnap children in the night?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“So you went looking for a myth and found a man,” he said without inflection, without looking up. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the origin myth of the United States, these documents have sacred status. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He has very little to say about any of the myths the Greek tragedians write of. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“That’s an old myth! Cold porridge left over from the Romans!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was about to happen like something out of a storybook, like something out of a Greek myth. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1789 the French population switched almost overnight from believing in the myth of the divine right of kings to believing in the myth of the sovereignty of the people. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the exception of the church and its myths and legends, there was no agency in the world so capable of making men feel the earth and the people upon it as the Communist party. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

An army tank led me into urban battle once; a swimming pool turned me into myth; I’ve left my body in order to occupy others—and all this happened before I turned sixteen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t every day you got proof of myth, but if this wasn’t proof, he didn’t know what was. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As if it were a tale of Greek myth and the gods had heard the cry, the ship banged against the skull-shaped jetty. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

But now, with most of the rivers cut into pieces and lakes left as grey sludge puckers on the landscape, my own history seemed like a myth along the lines of dragons. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The 3:30 quitting time turns out to be a myth; often we don’t return to the office until 4:30 or 5:00. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That he’d had to stare death in the face to do so only increased the power of the myth that was created that day. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Kaz had spent enough time building his own myth to know. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I’d gotten used to some of the Greek myths being true, but still... The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Milton’s pillars were the Parthenon and the Supreme Court Building; they were the Herakles of myth as well as the Hercules of Hollywood movies. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The whole dear notion of one’s own Self—marvelous old free-willed, free-enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self—is a myth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pored over the bookshelves, found lots of biology and physiology and animal science books, some agriculture, only one little book on myths, which she pulled out; she had this book, too. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They are more detailed than myths, but not always more accurate. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh! you mustn’t think that. The downtrodden governess is quite an exploded myth. I can assure you that it’s the parents who are afraid of being bullied by me.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the language of survival, a myth that helped us cope with the human sacrifice that finds us no matter our manhood. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

This has not been my experience, and it turns out to be a myth. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Abra smiled with amusement at the myths of these country boys. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The myth of choice here is seductive, but it should be resisted. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I racked my brain, trying to remember the myth of the boar. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Entangling happened so rarely that he had begun to think of it as a myth, something from the past. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He drifted about with his head full of myths, always at least half lost in some otherland of story. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Nowhere in the stories and myths did anyone ever say dragons could speak. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Here on these high rocks my memory myth repaired itself. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In myths they don’t spend time describing things like cities. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Many claim she’s only a myth—the bodiless witch, an ordinary person by daytime and a witch at night. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea that there are exactly two approaches to usage—all the traditional rules must be followed, or else anything goes—is the sticklers’ founding myth. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“What it comes down to,” the priest put out with cool rage, “is whether Piscine wants real religion—or myths from a cartoon strip.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the lack of such biological instincts, during the foraging era, hundreds of strangers were able to cooperate thanks to their shared myths. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it’s not a beautiful sadness—beautiful sadness is a myth. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Actually,” said Dr. Zinchenko, “Mr. Chiltington is the one in the construction business. Together, they were hoping to rewrite the history that didn’t fit their family myth.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered Chiron’s warning that in two thousand years, I might be considered a myth. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A myth is only an explanation, not an exploration. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“But those are just—” I almost said myths again. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The notion that black people have always been united in opposition to American caste systems is sheer myth. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But what the myths show is how high they had risen above the ancient filth and fierceness by the time we have any knowledge of them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of these things as I read the historical markers across the country, thought how the myth wipes out the fact. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sun Ra preaching about the “alter destiny” and “the living myth” and powering his spaceship with music—all over strange noises that sound more like a computer malfunctioning than jazz. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who knew Malcolm X Shabazz personally wanted to be sure that the negative myth around his memory would be erased by portraying the truths of his mission, and the depth of his heart. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And before that a myth, a poem of what his father had been, what fathers could be, what place we took in the story of our people. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We do not yet have a science strong enough to displace the myth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Greek myth of Prometheus the gift of fire forever severs humankind from the natural world—the burning torch is the icon of the constructed and artificial. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I recalled something in the myths about how she could calm her husband’s moods. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The chapter on dead rules has more on that one, and on how the myth got started. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What myth do we share that I can reference to make you feel the power? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It perpetuates the myth that the primary function of the system is to keep our streets safe and our homes secure by rooting out dangerous criminals and punishing them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice to a sea monster. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

And Bloom did his best to question the myth that this development would bring wealth to every inhabitant, and jobs and security for all. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Myths collect around her, and, oddly enough, not voluptuous myths. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As later chapters of this book will point out, many interpretations of the origin myth misrepresent and do injustice to peoples indigenous to this land. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

‘This is not just a superstition or a myth,” he said, and then cited evidence from astronomers that at that time in history there was a comet that followed the path outlined in the Bible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cane became a part of the myth he built. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

That was when I realized I had to write down the memories and myths and the legends—and even the phrases and jokes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The endlessly repeated claim that Webster’s Third treated ain’t as correct English is a myth.3 It originated in a press release from the publisher’s marketing department which announced “Ain’t gets official recognition at last.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“But Zeus and Poseidon—they both had, like, a bazil- lion kids in the myths. Why are their cabins empty?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to remember what I knew about Calypso from the old myths. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The only way my father could think of to instill in me a sense of my heritage was to take me to dubbed Italian versions of the ancient Greek myths. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

One of the standard myths about children’s television, for example, had always been that kids love to watch animals. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What made it more galling was that Pete’s reputation was part myth. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The actual particulars of the event are unclear, obscured by the accretion of myth. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In outline, the movie offers a savvy, updated riff on the Greek myth of Pygmalion, which has inspired myriad stories about men and the women they invent. ‘Barbie’ Review: Out of the Box and On the Road 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Penn might have seen “Gun Crazy,” but no matter: he was steeped in American culture, its myths, mores, iconography and violence, not only cinema. Film: Arthur Penn, a Director Attuned to His Country 2010-10-09T08:13:00Z

Yet even Charles apparently felt that "one of the greatest myths about 20th-century design is that Ray is an equal partner in the office". There's no I in Eames 2010-10-26T09:47:00Z

As restorers returned the work to its original luster, they were also able to dispel some of the many myths surrounding it. Refurbished Pollock masterpiece goes on display 2014-03-11T13:00:04Z

What makes these pairings exciting is the meeting of two otherwise antithetical minds and histories, a tug of war in cloth that creates a chimera so new it could potentially become myth. ‘A First in the History of Fashion’ 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

In the distance, the three islands lay like slumbering forms, host to myth and vision. In Italy, among the literary A-list, I find my own siren song 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

Encountering the title of Ms. Rossellini’s book, readers would guess that it includes prominent discussions of the Delphic maxim and of the myth of Oedipus or the play based on it, Sophocles ’ “Oedipus Rex.” ‘Know Thyself’ Review: The Evolution of a Culture 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z

Harris also challenges division sown by the model minority myth, which values Asian Americans’s proximity to Whiteness over solidarity with other people of color. Americans are still figuring out how to talk about multiracial identity. Kamala Harris’s nomination is a perfect example. 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

Those men who perished upon the rocks for surrendering to the sirens’ euphonious call are the myth’s tragic protagonists—the cautionary tale we embrace. In Italy, among the literary A-list, I find my own siren song 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

"WandaVision," meanwhile, is all about grief, but – like many myths before it – there is a sprinkle of hope. "WandaVision" echoes myths of Isis, Orpheus and Kisa Gotami to explain how grief and love persevere 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z

But I wanted to tell the myth in its own terms, as the thin child discovered it. Ragnar?k: the doom of the gods 2011-08-05T21:55:10Z

Some of the most popular myths: That tech mogul Bill Gates is secretly implanting microchips in people’s arms. Perspective | The media plays a crucial role in battling vaccine misinformation. But here’s what not to do. 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

Noland was prescient in the ’90s, translating cool ’60s minimalism into dark, politicized critiques of power and violence, and showing how these phenomena are shrouded in myths championing patriotism, social mobility and meritocracy. Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

I remember doing an exhibition with Joseph Beuys in 1974 – an artist around whom there was a lot of myth and hype. 10 years of Tate Modern 2010-04-24T23:07:00Z

I would tell them to change it or at the very least be aware of what is really happening and do not believe myths about the criminal justice system and how it operates. True crime and punishment: “Serial” creators on the dark and difficult truths of their third... 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

The book’s discussion of the difficulties of penetrating layers of secrecy and Soviet myth in deconstructing the historiography of the AK-47 will be fascinating to many historians, less so to casual enthusiasts. Books of The Times: The Flesh and Blood Behind the AK-47 2010-12-02T22:57:00Z

One of the problems is that the old myths, the old stigmas, are still deeply ingrained. This Week in Fiction: David Means on Stories of Homelessness 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

The phone calls — and the stunned reaction they cause — have become the stuff of myth. MacArthur Foundation Announces 26 ‘Genius’ Grant Winners 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

This expulsion came after a powwow days earlier with the bosses of a possible new client, Hershey's Chocolate, where the silver-tongued Draper did what he does best: infusing the product with his own seductive myths. A wakeup call heeded as `Mad Men' season ends 2013-06-24T12:43:33Z

The 241-year-old man appears as satisfied with his well-fed prosperity as his ancestors are with their national myth. Review | In the galleries: Where have all the people gone? 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Jones’s choreography was integral to the mixture of African myths that comprised the ambiguous narrative. Operas by Black Composers Have Long Been Ignored. Explore 8. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

The show featured Watery Ecstatic, a series of paintings inspired by the myth of Drexciya, or the Black Atlantis – an underwater city populated by the descendents of Africans thrown off slave ships. Ellen Gallagher: wigs, waterworlds and Wile E Coyote 2013-05-07T18:30:10Z

According to program notes, each chose a myth with roots in the Carpathian Mountain region; Mr. Bokaer then interpreted and choreographed the stories, producing results that were hardly linear. Review: Jonah Bokaer Plucks ‘Other Myths’ From the Past 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

Warner included this autobiographical material because, she explained, her desire to study "the myth and the cult of the Virgin Mary" was "the outcome of a private journey". Kathryn Hughes: rereading Alone of All Her Sex by Marina Warner 2013-03-23T07:00:15Z

It falls fully for that myth of the ancient culture of southern Italy which defends itself by forming this entity called the mafia. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z

“That’s a big myth,” she said, recalling nights spent drinking wine and spotting stars with friends in the city. A guide to urban stargazing: What you need to start exploring the skies close to home 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Her inclusion also suggests a narrative informed by the #MeToo movement, a way to reframe the myth of the lone male auteur, of the man who behaves badly, but still, my God, those steps. ‘Fosse/Verdon’ Has Magic to Do. And Undo. 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Rubenhold untangles the myths of history-making and writes with great empathy about the hardships the women endured when alive and the rampant misogyny they faced when dead. Read Your Way Through London 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

As for the anthropology, Aster spent months researching Scandinavian and Germanic myths and traditions, touring museums and ancient farms and studying plants, paintings and Viking torture techniques. Midsommar director Ari Aster: 'I often cling to dead things' 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

Irony is to the English what self-reliance is to Americans, or what linguistic cultivation is to the French: a core value often elevated to the status of myth. The English Fetishization of Irony 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

People, like nations, have their founding myths: It was this deprivation that made me, or that piece of unutterable good luck. In ‘Sontag,’ the Author’s Myth Takes Center Stage 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

It was a myth of origin that meant, to Americans at least, that DV embodied a "European" sensibility, complete with a spiritual connection to Parisian haute couture. Diana Vreeland by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart – review 2013-03-01T12:00:01Z

It is thus odd, however, that Axworthy, so careful to counter myths about Iran, states so baldly that the US financed "al-Qaida and the Taliban to prevent pro-Iranian groups taking over Afghanistan". Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy – review 2013-03-25T10:00:01Z

But after examining that skull, the team quickly debunked the myth, saying it belonged to an old woman. Alas, Poor William Shakespeare. Where Does His Skull Rest? 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

The 25-foot-tall bronze work is part of Biggers’s “Chimera” series, which looks at different historical, artistic renditions of the body, myths and power. Sculpture Transplanted to the Gardens 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

What Ross terms Wagner’s “manipulation of myth” enabled him to arouse in the collective unconscious reactions that no individual art form alone could stimulate. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

There are whiteboard walls everywhere full of algebra and in-jokes; there is a learning space with classes in everything from mindfulness to Greek myth. Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph 2013-01-19T21:59:00Z

In other words, people believed in the panic myth because nobody had really studied the evidence before. Finding peace in post-disaster Haiti 2013-05-26T14:00:00Z

It did not matter if people did not get the references to classic myths, she said. An Immersive Show Taps ‘an Oracle’ for a Spin on Greek Myth 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

His mockery of myths about Africa continues in his pseudo-primitivist paintings studded with nails that resemble the rusty ones found in "fetish" sculptures from the Congo region. How Yinka Shonibare's sculpture park exhibition shoots to thrill 2013-03-03T21:59:01Z

The Papermoon Puppet Theater has become a staple of the global arts festival circuit, with enigmatic modernist puppets that tell stories from myth to the birth of modern Indonesia. On Java, a Creative Explosion in an Ancient City 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

When Canongate invited me to contribute a title to their myth series, I knew immediately which myth I wanted to write. Ragnar?k: the doom of the gods 2011-08-05T21:55:10Z

Whether the singing is truly spontaneous is hard to know, but the myth of the women singing comes up when talking to locals familiar with the factory. In Portugal, Taking a Dive Into Sardines 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

Like a cursed madwoman in classical myth, Yeong-hye seems both eerily prophetic and increasingly unhinged when she begins starving herself, hoping to transform into a tree. ‘The Vegetarian,’ a Surreal South Korean Novel 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Based on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, it is set in a walled underground city in grim, post-apocalyptic times. Review: Anais Mitchell Sings Her Own Work at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Women often fare badly in the Greco-Roman myths that mostly male artists have depicted for millennia. Review | In the galleries: Exhibit upends male-centric myths, legends and folklore 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

The melodrama “Saint-Narcisse” presents an interpretation of the Greek myth of Narcissus, the beautiful youth who pined after his own reflection. ‘Saint-Narcisse’ Review: A Classic Romance Between Twin Flames 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

How much do we really understand about the CIA, even after all the attention paid by novelists and screenwriters and journalists to its myths and legends? Oh, the suffering of the CIA: In Showtime’s “The Spymasters,” America’s chief spooks bare their souls on the pain of the terror war 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

On my return from Spain I thought of exposing the Soviet myth in a story that could be easily understood by almost anyone . Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z

We didn't necessarily get past the myths and image to any solid truths about McLaren, but that was, in a sense, the point. Radio review: Great Lives ? Malcolm McLaren 2010-12-08T08:00:00Z

It’s not a myth that sex can help an overdue baby get going. The science of sex: what happens to our bodies when we're aroused? 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Crucially, the myth of the model minority obscures the struggles of working-class Asian Americans holding menial jobs who also face discrimination on socio-economic grounds. Solidarity with Black Lives Matter: Asian Americans speaking out against police brutality 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

We’re in a period of re-examining our cherished myths, and in Texas they don’t come more cherished than the Alamo. Summer Is Coming. Bring a Book. 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

In the world of myth, she is the Great Goddess, but comically reincarnated as a nanny who “pops in” to turn-of-the-century London. ‘Mary Poppins’ creator P.L. Travers is even more fascinating than her fiction 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

That is the biggest of the Santa bummers: Instilling the myth, a.k.a. lie, is easy and fun, but few people warn you to think through the endgame first. Perspective | Santa can’t fulfill a kid’s wishlist this year. Does this make his parent the Grinch? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

Almost every musical telling of this myth has a moment when Orpheus sings a song that so enchants the gatekeepers of the underworld that he is given permission to enter and reclaim his wife. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

As for general care tips, the experts debunked other popular myths and misconceptions about washing swimwear that might surprise even the most seasoned launderer. How to properly wash a swimsuit 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

“It was almost like it was so painful to see that nothing comes of being in a documentary, there needed to be a myth that there was deception involved,” Ms. Livingston said this week. The Extravagant Life of Hector Xtravaganza 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z

Even allowing for the myth of the painting, the “aura” of its celebrity and the tourist’s natural investment in having a memorable experience, the painting is magical. Perspective | I had never seen Leonardo’s ‘Last Supper.’ A quick visit left a lasting impression. 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

While this idea valorizes the long, competitive path orchestral musicians travel, it is a myth of meritocracy. Musicians on How to Bring Racial Equity to Auditions 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

“The press perpetuates a myth,” says Weinstein, the independent-movie kingpin known as much for his volatile temperament as for films such as Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting and The English Patient. Harvey Weinstein, From Screen to Stage 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Adam’s problem is that of the myth of Sisyphus; Eve’s problem is Adam. | Tilda Swinton 2014-03-11T19:00:39Z

This has long been a comforting myth, he says, quoting even George Washington as suggesting that slavery was on its way out. A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

The thing is, we played up to the myth for so long. “You don’t want to kill the myth”: The feud continues in “Substance: Inside New Order,” a second memoir by New Order bass player Peter Hook 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

I think that most designers like to uphold the myth that they sit down, inspiration strikes, they knock the thing out, and then they move on to the next. Peter Mendelsund on reading, cover design and his own new books 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

Strange’s magic is wild and Celtic, drawing on ancient myths–in particular, the history of The Raven King, an ancient magician who harnessed the powers of nature and an extraworldly faerie kingdom. Review: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Brings the Old-Time Magic 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

He isn’t, of course, but what they mean by that is that they continue to rebel against the idea of adulthood presented by that myth. “Why grow up?” is a political question: Our cult of youth is no accident — and it has dire consequences 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Which gives it a strangely nostalgic power — not because it looks back fondly on the Reagan era or the Cold War, but because it summons up the myth of a hegemonic Hollywood. Are the Movies Liberal? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

The idea that people can be “right brain thinkers” or “left brain thinkers” is actually a myth that I’ve debunked before: 8 tips to help you generate great ideas 2013-12-03T16:26:00Z

The Supreme myth had already become more mirage than reality. Can Supreme Stay Cool While Going Corporate? 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

Both Guggenheim and Lee Krasner, Pollock’s wife, are responsible for the myth that Pollock painted the entire work overnight—a complete impossibility, as anyone looking at the canvas can tell. A Clear Look at Jackson Pollock’s Breakthrough Painting, “Mural” 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

It will eliminate a lot of myths about contemporary Latin American art. Firecrackers, a striptease scandal and more moments of change from the Hammer's 'Radical Women' 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

But in the realm of reality rather than myth, we have mostly enhanced our bodies to compensate for the lack of more mundane abilities. Superhuman: are we the greatest design project of the century? 2012-07-17T12:38:33Z

Mason eliminates this thread, along with more or less every element in the body of Greco-Roman myth that smacks of ethics, or suggests that anything we do matters. Classical Myths Filtered Through a Modern Prism 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

"We need to break down the myths and judgments and not fuel these." Elton John schools DaBaby after rapper's homophobic HIV/AIDS comments 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

Dream and Calliope used to be married and had a son, Orpheus, whose tragic death inspired another myth on top of precipitating their breakup. "The Sandman" retrofits an old story into a cautionary fable about opportunistic "male feminists" 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

The learning of Latin is enjoying something of a revival in state schools – gradually destroying the old, dumb myth that Latin is only for posh people. Madeline Miller's Orange prize win captures the prevailing literary mood 2012-05-30T18:15:01Z

According to the myth, Romulus and his brother Remus, the sons of the god Mars, were abandoned by the banks of the river Tiber where a she-wolf found them and fed them with her milk. Archaeologists unveil possible shrine to Rome's first king 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

They seek escape in video games, in heavy metal, in monster movies, in an embrace of myth and legend. ‘Devil House,’ a Confident, Creepy Novel About a Wicked Unsolved Crime 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

Farmers have repeatedly said that it is a myth that they don't want help taking care of children. Farm families are struggling to grow their businesses in child care deserts. Can the farm bill help? 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

To maintain hated symbols as a teaching lesson and warning to future generations would be plausible if we were, as a society, fully and finally done with things like the myth of the Lost Cause. Perspective | Statues make definitive statements. That’s why Confederate memorials must come down. 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

The story, which takes on ancient Scandinavian myth as a metaphor for immigration and the sense of being an outsider, will be less mysterious once you actually sit down and watch the thing. The 10 biggest movie surprises of 2018, from Melissa McCarthy to ‘Mowgli’ 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Faint until the mid-19th century, the myth was then revisited and effectively reinvented. Reclaiming the Badges of Cultural Identity 2010-10-22T11:30:00Z

She sang about the myth of Narcissus and about plastic surgery. Music Review: Carmen Consoli Sings of Past and Present 2010-06-18T22:04:00Z

But we live with a different set of myths today, and contemporary opera has begun to reflect the age of Mark Zuckerberg and Edward Snowden. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z

The visual rendering of spiritual myths and gods give the film its primary bursts of energy. ‘Ainbo’ Review: Saved by a Princess 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

He schooled himself on how to attack the myths of Scripture and would carry around a Bible just to undercut it. Abraham Lincoln, bare-knuckle brawler? 2012-12-12T22:26:00Z

The myth of anyone perpetually staying on government benefits just is not true, he says. Food bank braces for surge in demand after Trump strips 700,000 of benefits 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

That said, there are some pervasive myths about French cheese that are ripe for debunking. 7 common French cheese myths, busted 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

In late February and early March, a two-week festival explores the myth of Prometheus, including Beethoven’s “The Creatures of Prometheus” and the premiere of Fang Man’s “Song of the Flaming Phoenix” for sheng and orchestra. Finally, a Lot of Classical Music and Opera to Hear This Season 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

I sort of see you as this addiction myth buster. Addiction is a learning disorder: Why the war on drugs is useless, AA undermines treatment, and addiction studies can learn a lot from autism 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Genealogists know that near-facts are the scourge of the trade, and Kaiser’s experience isn’t unique; everyone he meets on the Polish ancestor trail builds myths on sand. A Quest to Reclaim a Family Home Unearths a Past Buried by the Holocaust 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Anselmo is from New Orleans, a place of myth breeding and super storytelling, where one point of fact is always connected to another. Music Review: Philip H. Anselmo & the Illegals Have a Story to Perform 2013-08-18T22:06:45Z

“There are fragments of reality, myth, fairy tale, cliché and stereotype.” Marcus Gardley’s ‘The Box: A Black Comedy’ Comes to Brooklyn 2014-04-13T21:56:13Z

Instead, “it explores the intersection of the private and the public while ruminating on the transformation of the past into myth.” What’s on TV Tuesday: Oscar Nominees ‘Jackie’ and ‘Moana’ 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

This is a book that will anger some readers, especially those who reject Dyson’s central premise: that if we want true racial equality in America, whites themselves must destroy the enduring myths of white supremacy. A Cry From the Heart: Michael Eric Dyson Addresses Race Head-On 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Keen's interest in myth, surrealism and romantic painting complemented his love of movies and comics, and he continually absorbed new references into his work. Jeff Keen 2012-06-24T15:35:14Z

Boise — derived from the French word for wooded, but a name that also reflects a confluence of frontier myth and speculation — sits below the Rocky Mountains on a verdant plain known as Treasure Valley. 36 Hours in Boise (and Beyond) 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

When your ancestors lived in the place that others saw as a blank space to fill in themselves, that American myth hits a little differently. The Remarkable ‘Reservation Dogs’ Runs Away Toward Home 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

Carmen" specialist who has staged more than a dozen "Carmen" productions elsewhere, has another perspective."This is one of three great operas dealing with myth. 'Carmen': Quite a woman at Seattle Opera 2011-10-05T22:47:04Z

Studies have shown that the former is a myth. World Cup Teams Have Crazy Rules About Pre-Game Sex 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

But many of these new poems also adopt the forms of myth, ballad and fable. Changeling by Clare Pollard ? review 2011-07-29T21:55:00Z

Throughout Carlos enjoys the spotlight that warmed him and — with the lovers who protected him, the journalists who covered him and the dictators who hired him — helped turn him into a myth. film: Beyond Bullets and Berets, Life in Wartime 2010-10-24T02:23:00Z

Guides tend to fall back on “folklore and myth.” Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

“A fantastical mixture of myth and historical reality,” Stephen Holden wrote in his review for The Times in February, adding that it “shatters lingering illusions of first-world culture.” Lost Culture on Found Film 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

All three open with songs contemplating death, and her other solo songs explore desire, myth, memory and transfiguration: as narrative, as images, as parable. Aoife O’Donovan’s Songs Poured Out When Touring Shut Down 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

There’s a map of the Arctic Circle, a brief retelling of Ovid’s Prometheus myth, a chronology of events in the novel, notes on revisions between older and newer versions, and even explanations of typographical errors. Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ comes fully alive in this new edition 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

It’s an ingenious blend of desolation and a strange kind of hope, told in rich prose with more than a trace of myth and magical realism thrown in. Eerie visitor, string of murders haunt B.C. logging town 2014-02-19T20:14:55Z

In more recent decades, as mistrust of the old British myths of character and heroism grew, Scott’s reputation took a nose dive. Exhibition Review: Race to the South Pole at Museum of Natural History 2010-05-28T22:30:00Z

It feels fitting that someone should have had a supernatural experience: in Greek myth and Euripides' play, Medea is the granddaughter of the sun-god Helios and niece of Circe, a witch. Medea: the mother of all roles 2012-10-02T18:04:21Z

Review: Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ dismantles the myths the filmmaker helped create in movies like ‘Goodfellas’ ‘The Irishman’ tells us who killed Jimmy Hoffa. A lawyer with a secret trove of documents says the movie got it wrong. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye,” seasoned with superstition and Greek myth, and a chorus chanting forebodingly. Review: Mac Wellman’s ‘Bad Penny’ Promises a Boat Ride to Hell 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

The Denis décorations, painted on site in Moscow, illustrate the myth of Cupid and Psyche with a lysergic palette of pinks and blues. French and Russian Art on a ‘War and Peace’ Scale 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

This is why I know this whole cougar thing is a myth. I Was Misinformed: Sexual Myopia: If You’re My Age, Why Do You Look So Old? 2013-01-16T14:00:00Z

So, it just feeds into those same kinds of myths and fears that they spread around, which leads to further violence of trans women’s bodies and identities.” Piers Morgan grills trans activist Janet Mock with invasive, sensationalist questions 2014-02-05T16:16:00Z

She dispels some persistent perspiration myths, including the one that equates sweating with detoxification. Scents and Science Mingle in ‘The Joy of Sweat’ 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

“This includes early liaison with police prior to making charging decisions, and providing specialist training for prosecutors on consent, myths and stereotypes, and cases involving vulnerable witnesses and young people.” Revealed: less than a third of young men prosecuted for rape are convicted 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

Your new film shows that while corporations have done better in being more socially responsible, that this is, in fact, a myth. Democracy, not consumption is "how we will amass power to challenge the corporate behemoth" 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dendy, 53, a Broadway choreographer who also creates and performs original work, structures this autobiographical piece around the myth of Theseus. Mark Dendy’s ‘Labryinth,’ a Take on the Theseus Myth 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

It is a myth that people don't want development. India tribes fight mining firm in real-life Avatar 2010-03-05T11:13:00Z

Only, very little of that myth that we retell each year is true. Why the biggest Thanksgiving lie may be the turkey on your table 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

The concept of the maternal instinct is as ingrained in our culture as the falling-in-love myth, i.e. immediately “just knowing he’s the one,” like in the movies. Motherlode Blog: Fertility Diary: Childless as Opposed to Child-Free 2013-08-20T13:48:55Z

Company members bear witness to the memory and myth of this rapidly changing border community, battleground of the war on drugs, in words drawn from verbatim interview transcripts and historical archives. Theater Listings for Jan. 3-9 2014-01-02T23:16:06Z

Her vision overtly draws on the violence of ancient Mesoamerican art, with the blocky strength of an Aztec carving, the intensity of a Mayan myth. Frida Kahlo's birthday presence: a Google doodle tribute 2010-07-06T13:25:00Z

Contrary to myth, he was also popular with his insurance office colleagues and well-respected in Prague as a man of letters. ‘Is That Kafka?’: a new book reveals a pool-playing moviegoer afraid of mice 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Similarly, Southerners who embrace neo-Confederate myths and fly Confederate flags are not, necessarily, racists. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z

I wanted to be a responsible face for cannabis users, to educate and to help dispel myths and stigmas around this beneficial plant. Meet the cookbook author who's bringing Taiwanese-American flavors to cannabis edibles 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

One Swedish study indicated that an overwhelming 95 percent of transgender people experienced positive outcomes from transitioning, despite the persistence of myths peddled by people such as Heyer. Caitlyn Jenner shouldn’t worry about “transition regrets”: Why Walt Heyer’s transphobic comments are a bigger challenge 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

The liberal references to Cambodian myths and stories do not serve the immediate narrative. In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner – review 2012-09-29T21:55:01Z

Defiance’s absinthe, clouded from water dripped in — the louche that’s one of the signs of a true absinthe — I think the swirl of art, myth and notoriety creates a psychosomatic effect that still has power. Why absinthe still has power, even after its myths have been debunked 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

Accepting the prize, a tearful Blanchett thanked her fellow nominees for “breaking the myth that women’s experience is monolithic.” ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Wins Big at the BAFTAs 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z

And without this particular myth, where would we be? The Silence of Animals by John Gray – review 2013-02-15T10:20:01Z

Even the publisher and the book jacket say that this is a contemporary retelling of the Oedipal myth ... the question for readers isn't what's going to happen — it's the fascination with watching it unfold. Lit Life: A Q&A with David Guterson 2011-10-24T01:45:04Z

It’s too early to do much but cry about our loss right now, but he’ll be missed, and missed more as the ages pass and his myth continues to expand – that music isn’t going anywhere. Alex Chilton, Rock Musician, Dies 2010-03-18T18:10:00Z

Rambo 5, Terminator 6, Die Hard 5, Indiana Jones 5 and now the second Top Gun, all ride the new American myth of super-agers. Over-40 actors still fighting the ageism that stymied Judy Garland 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

One of the most powerful myths surrounding breast milk is that it’s not only the “best” food for baby, but that it’s free. Motherlode Blog: The True Cost of Breast-feeding ? This Milk Isn't Free 2012-04-03T16:28:37Z

Sure, the Strokes went on to arenas, to overblown follow-up albums, to myth, all while the Rapture idled, then fizzled, then reconstituted, only to fizzle some more. Music Review: The Rapture at Webster Hall - Review 2011-09-25T21:54:09Z

"I did research and tried to find a way of telling his last night. It's not necessarily a linear story. It approaches JFK and Jackie as human beings rather than the myth." L.A. Opera broadens scope with post-apocalyptic 'Dog Days' at REDCAT 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

Invoking myths of opportunism, Bane promises the Gotham citizenry that courts will be convened, spoils enjoyed. | 'The Dark Knight Rises’: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ With Christian Bale 2012-07-18T17:49:45Z

Such negative responses are rooted in longstanding myths about “hobos,” “Bowery bums,” and “bag ladies.” How the homeless create homes 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Nick Cunard/Rex Features The myth is that , self-styled "dandy in the underworld", lived his short life in fearless honesty and flamboyant self-revelation. Sebastian Horsley: the tragedy of Soho's self-styled dandy 2010-06-24T08:00:00Z

The myth, she says, is “so resistant to all subsequent attempts to undo it, the removal of a few statues and the renaming of a few buildings notwithstanding.” ‘Looking for the Good War’ Says Our Nostalgia for World War II Has Done Real Harm 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z

It was sweet and relatively predictable, but it was interesting for the centrality of the grandmother figure in the Disneyfied Polynesian myth. How real is the image of the wise and loving grandparent? 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

What follows is a tale that is filled with humor even while exploring hefty themes such as the frailty of memory, the importance of myths, and the legacy of the Holocaust. What to Read Before a Jewish Heritage Trip 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

“Knowledge and Wonder” was painted in 1995, a critical moment in Mr. Marshall’s career, when his ambitions grew to match those of European history painters depicting myths, battles and colonial domination. Kerry James Marshall Paints for Chicago. His Mural Should Stay There. 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Without actually spelling out the idea that people of color are taking over the nation and forcing white men to an early grave, Anthony's song cleverly implies this powerful right-wing myth. "Rich Men" versus the rest of us: A country hit embodies the GOP's narrative 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z

He looks down — it’s a myth that looking down makes you lose your balance, he said — and also around his periphery. At 73, ‘Man on Wire’ Philippe Petit still dances high above the void 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

But how stimulating to hear the two renowned personages justify their positions on faith vs. reason, myth vs. truth in a freewheeling, witty and — yes — civil exchange. It's atheist vs. believer in Taproot's 'Freud's Last Case' 2012-03-29T20:02:04Z

It also gave him the opportunity to explore and undermine some of the more seductive western myths. What Danny Boyle did next 2010-12-05T00:04:00Z

The myth has been kicking around for over two millenniums, after all. Love, Trust and Heartbreak on Two Stages 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

Well, it’s, I don’t know what to say; I’m all for myths. | Tilda Swinton 2014-03-11T19:00:39Z

Revealed: the legend of "wrestling gators" is a little bit of a myth. Reality TV, redneck-style 2013-06-21T12:00:00Z

These fancy flourishes are all part of a dreamlike meditation on the myths and transformations of the American West that's both ambitious and ambiguous. Art band at On the Boards is a little cryptic, but still 'Awesome' 2010-04-23T20:21:00Z

Persisting with the myth that women are under-represented due to lack of interest serves nobody. Women in theatre: let's get rid of the equality myth 2011-07-18T13:17:05Z

She’s not trying to elicit sympathy by being vulnerable; instead, she wants to dispel the myth that Hollywood actors live perfect, polished day-to-day lives. Brie Larson Pivoted to Video 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z

There’s an old myth that Collins wrote “In the Air Tonight” about watching a man do nothing to save his drowning friend. Salon’s Patton Oswalt peace summit 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

In both stories, the characters rebel against the unbearable myth of attainable perfection, substituting for it an alternative one of transcendent, authentic, freedom-giving destruction. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

This Santa may have all the trappings of traditional myth — the elves, the reindeer, etc. — but his knowledge extends well beyond naughty and nice, and he's clearly been keeping an eye on the Doctor. The Doctor spars with St. Nick in 'Doctor Who: Last Christmas' 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

This solid, thought-provoking production, from the National Jewish Theater, does not actually question whether that really happened, although characters do refer to accounts of it as myth and rumor. Theater Review: ?The Soap Myth,? at the Black Box Theater 2012-04-03T22:09:44Z

His reports from the front lines, according to a 1944 article in this newspaper, “finally exploded as a myth” the notion of mental illness as a scourge of the weak. Does It Make Sense to Call Anyone ‘Normal’? 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

It is testament to the pervasiveness of Russian myths that Figes perpetuates some of them. The Myths That Made, and Still Make, Russia 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

But we can keep alive the myth of the lazy weekend breakfast, so long as we’re organised. Start the day with a bang: Yotam Ottolenghi’s big weekend breakfast recipes 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

He’s fluent in pension plans, overtime work rules and what he calls the “myths” of free trade. Sherrod Brown thinks he could have helped Democrats win in 2016. But what about 2020? 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

Unpack the enigma of the Blair Witch myth in a more traditional manner? Small scream: why TV's horror shows are scarily bad 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

In a bookish but appealing series begun in 2008 Ms. Reichek uses digital and hand embroidery and silk-screen to reproduce a wide range of images and literary quotations relating to the Ariadne myth. Art In Review: ELAINE REICHEK: ?Ariadne?s Thread? 2012-02-24T00:08:46Z

"Vengeance" is addressing issues of identity, myth, and cultural appropriation, but it is self-aware enough to call itself out as it is doing this very thing. In crime comedy "Vengeance," B.J. Novak dares to mess with Texas while also skewering all the rest 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

While Talokan is an underwater society inspired by the myth of Atlantis, Marvel Studios has signaled that the people of Talokan sought refuge underwater in response to colonial invasion. "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" continues the series’ quest to recover and celebrate lost cultures 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

SUN Japanese folk tales and myths, 11 a.m.; planetarium, origami, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-07-02T20:19:04Z

“He’s writing an epic that points to itself and says, ‘Hey look, I’m in the process of creating a national myth,’” she said. Looking at Epic Poetry Through 21st-Century Eyes 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Television loves the myth of smart, stylish murderers and the enigmatic detectives who pursue them, and if you enjoy those types of shows, don’t watch “The Killer Speaks.” Critic’s Notebook: Real Murder in ‘The Killer Speaks’ and ‘Cell Block Psychic’ 2014-04-30T19:58:13Z

Cassirer’s understanding of language was capacious, incorporating not only German and English but also myth, religion, technology and art. How Wittgenstein and Other Thinkers Dealt With a Decade of Crisis 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z

And the 1978 Jamaican film "Rockers" bases its story partially on the Robin Hood myth, but it takes place within the world of reggae music. Scarecrow suggests | Like 'Robin Hood?' Try earlier versions on DVD 2010-05-14T00:46:00Z

The myth of the wandering womb lived on for centuries. Seven crazy myths about the female anatomy 2012-08-24T13:37:00Z

While the author writes about a culture wholly different from her own, she does so not just with grace and compassion but with Nigerian songs, tales and myths. Perspective | The 10 books to read in October 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

I was enamored with the myth of the tortured artist; I chased it not only in my taste but also in my personal relationships. Perspective | Warped Tour is over for good. Will the culture it created finally reckon with its demons? 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

My son was given a Superman costume by his five-year-old cousin, who wore it only once because he knew, even then, that he wanted something more nuanced from his myths. 'These men are bad role models': will my son get over his superhero obsession? 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

His debunking of the Mozart Effect myth, for instance, is concise and accurate. In search of the Mozart effect 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

And “Pretty Deadly” is a western myth, narrated in dreamlike poetry from a bunny to a butterfly. “If you want to see ‘angry feminist,’ I will show it to you”: “Captain Marvel” writer opens up about the backlash against the new Carol Danvers 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Often he seems content to burnish the myths and personality cults that color so much popular thinking about the internet. Review: ‘Lo and Behold,’ the Danger, and Potential, of the Digital Revolution 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

The 62-year-old artist, dressed in white shirt and black slacks in contrast to others in spectacular African costumes, followed by recalling his childhood bewilderment over the myth of Perseus. When refusing the hour saves the day 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

She also dispels myths surrounding genetic differences among races, like the eugenics used to justify race-based slavery. Podcasts Worth a Listen: ‘Fiasco,’ ‘Unwell,’ ‘In Those Genes’ 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

“I decided to deconstruct the myth to see what the reality was.” In This ‘Billy the Kid,’ the Wounds Are Those You Cannot See 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

What starts as a story about a kooky urban development project becomes a haunting saga about fraud, exploitation and the toxic myth of the American dream. 7 Podcasts About the Art of the Scam 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

Viking and Greek movies are always about the myth that lurks beneath the legend that lies beyond our ken. Valhalla Rising v Clash of the Titans: there will be blood 2010-03-18T22:05:00Z

The long-held myth of a culture solely concerned with timeless icons of gods and kings in postures dictated by canon is finally dispelled, even if that is not the purpose of the show. Exhibition Review: Finding Ancient Egypt's Sense of Humor 2011-05-20T18:30:05Z

“Household sterilization is a little bit of a myth,” he says. DIY yogurt beats the store-bought stuff

When Leslie Jamison was a student at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she fell in love with the myth of the alcoholic writer: the myth that liquor fed, not poisoned, great writing. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

The making of myth, and in particular its use as a homemade anesthetic for Southern white guilt, was a theme to which she would return repeatedly. Ellen Douglas, Southern Novelist, Dies at 91 2012-11-12T05:37:19Z

Our leading export is this myth of democracy we have. U.S. Pledge to Renew Cuba Ties Gets Hopeful Reaction From 'Buena Vista Social Club' Star 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

"When contemporary humanists invoke the idea of progress they are mixing together two different myths: a Socratic myth of reason and a Christian myth of salvation." The Silence of Animals by John Gray – review 2013-02-15T10:20:01Z

And so there’s a lot of — I think that’s what makes this last episode interesting is how far these people are alienated and are willing to cross Ragnar and not totally believe in his myth. Vikings Star Travis Fimmel and Creator Michael Hirst Talk Season 2 Finale 2014-05-01T15:37:54Z

Do you want to talk about the model minority myth? "Have more Asian friends": James Shen reflects on Hollywood, activism & new series "Run the World" 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z

JS: One of the myths that I try to destroy is the myth that if we do anything about inequality it will weaken our economy. Hip-Hop foodies 2012-06-27T13:46:00Z

"Gauguin is an artist who created his own persona and established his own myth as to what kind of a man he was," said Nicholas Serota, the director of the Tate. Gauguin exhibit of major work opens at Tate Modern 2010-09-29T18:45:00Z

“Of all the California myths, that’s the one I reach for.” Zoe Kazan: ‘There’s so much sexual harassment on set' 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z

Cocteau’s surrealism, by turns sprightly and lightly self-pitying, generates high spirits in the opera, as when jaunty music enlivens the scene of cafe-life bohemia that opens this adaptation of the Orpheus myth. The Best of Philip Glass’s (Many) Operas After ‘Akhnaten’ 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

It is likely that no one disease provides a simple, "pure" origin for vampire myths, since beliefs about vampires changed over time. More "disease" than "Dracula" — how the vampire myth was born 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

We riddle along with Walker as he grapples with obscure legends of our own bad times, including that particularly seductive myth: the myth of progress. Classic dystopian novels forecast a bleak future — soon 2014-03-28T20:10:55Z

Stephen Fry brings his own brand of English drollery to a selection of Greek myths in his new book Mythos. Can lessons from Watergate prepare us for Trump? – best podcasts of the week 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Ms. Sandberg said that it is imperative to debunk the myth that women are uninterested in technology, and show how they are not given the credit they deserve. ‘The Innovators’ by Walter Isaacson: How Women Shaped Technology 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

The piece is a dialogue between young refugees and their ancestors, who share the story of the Darangen, an epic song — 72,000 lines long — that recounts Maranao history and myths. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

At its center are the myths by which we define ourselves: myths of liberation, myths of degradation, myths of power and oppression and celebrity, and the uneasy and often contradictory ways they intersect. Fall books preview: A busy literary season ahead 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Yet, there are certain myths about our brains that are continuously circulated as fact — so much so that they’re ingrained in, well, our brains. 7 common myths about the human brain — busted 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

His insider-outsider books at once affirmed and debunked the myths, skewering movie-industry hypocrisy, venality and pretension even as they celebrated the hard work, scrappy creativity and helter-skelter deal making that allowed the movies to flourish. William Goldman’s Journey From Page to Screen 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

She sees how she benefits from the model-minority myth even as it traps her, absorbing her accomplishments to fuel a system she doesn’t believe in. ‘Minor Feelings’ Rescues Personal Experience From the Expectations of Others 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

But scientists believe that the idea of requiring additional protein in your diet to build up muscle, either through meat or supplements such as protein shakes, is a myth. Are you eating too much protein? Some sources aren't as healthy as you think 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

Many of these heroes and their deeds, unlike those in the myths and epics, are unknown to us. Art Review: Those Greek Heroes, Sometimes Behaving Badly 2010-10-21T20:45:00Z

“There are several myths about forefoot landing,” he says. Heel striking – is it really the enemy of good running form? 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

This is to all the doubters and deniers out there, the ones who say that heaven on Broadway does not exist, that it’s only some myth our ancestors dreamed up. | 'The Book of Mormon' : Missionary Men With Confidence in Sunshine 2011-03-25T02:30:32Z

“The brochure perpetuates the myth that it’s the stranger in the bushes.” Should rape victims “submit”? 2013-05-08T21:35:00Z

SAT Explore myths and facts about spiders, children must be accompanied by adult, 2 p.m. Community calendar 2011-10-05T22:25:05Z

Saunders and Wolff are also poking at Wild West myths about freedom, and at the widening chasm where some semblance of national identity used to be. At Under the Radar, Family Histories Bubble Up With No Easy Answers 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

Scapellato: “Big Lonesome” is about how our big American myths have a way of making us small, unsure, and lonesome. Salon’s author questionnaire: “The first half: excoriating fights, lots of crying in my car and on cross-country flights, and very desperate orgasms” 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

But you also say it’s interwoven with the founding ideology or myth of America, too.   “Democracy in Black”: A conversation about race in America with Eddie Glaude Jr. 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Duchamp used it to reanimate everyday things with charisma, Joseph Beuys to create a personal myth. Art Review: The Spiritual Network 2011-03-24T22:13:08Z

It means poking holes in the myth that the American West was empty and that the land belonged to no one. Little house of maybe: "American Masters" on fact, fiction and the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

Another myth: That when blind tested sommeliers would have the same opinion about any of these wines. Five Common Wine Myths, Debunked 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

It's a myth designed to make people feel better about having head lice. 'My ex is proven wrong!': readers on the everyday advice to ignore 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Yet is not without its pleasures or historical interest in dispelling the myth that talkies per se were the source of Keaton’s decline. On Video: Buster Keaton’s Talkie ‘Free and Easy’ Comes to DVD 2014-03-23T19:49:40Z

The Edinburgh hit, Unmythable – all the Greek myths in 70 minutes – is at the Met in Bury on Wednesday. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-02-08T15:48:00Z

“We were breaking the myth that tequila couldn’t be aged,” Mr. Camarena said. Picking an Extra Añejo Tequila Takes Extra Care 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

One of the things she most appreciated about Hadestown was the ancientness of the myth. Anais Mitchell: Greece is the word 2011-01-13T22:22:01Z

With “Stagecoach,” Ford’s return to the genre after 13 years of more “prestigious” material, the western achieves self-consciousness, an awareness of itself as America’s official foundation myth. DVD: John Wayne and Alex Cord: Two Ringo Kids of ?Stagecoach? 2011-10-15T22:23:03Z

It is also a new style of book for me because its based on a myth - the myth of Ramayana - the story of Rama, Sita and Ravana - the greatest Indian story. Ash Mistry and the Savage Fortress by Sarwat Chadda - review 2013-04-08T08:00:00Z

In the UK, there was "The A Word" which, although incorporating some actors with disabilities, presented autism as a factor in family breakdown, a myth that some research has challenged. "As We See It": An imperfect step forward for representing autism on screen 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z

On Monday, McDonald’s released a statement on its media portal, responding to the “myth” that its food does not decompose. McDonald's responds to allegations that its food doesn't decompose — again 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

Springsteen's investment in his own heroic myth seems to motivate his other recent attempt at rescuing patriotism from the anti-intellectual and anti-democratic sewer of right wing outrage. How Bruce Springsteen – and the left – can reclaim and cultivate a vocabulary of patriotism 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

And there are the enduring myths that underlie the images. The Photo Book That Captured How the Soviet Regime Made the Truth Disappear 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

THR: A "Sopranos" feature film is practically a Hollywood myth at this point. Edie Falco won't rule out "Sopranos" movie 2010-08-16T19:50:00Z

This modern retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus — who travels to hell to retrieve his beloved Eurydice — seemed too much like agitprop in 2019. Review | ‘Hadestown’ ushers Broadway back to the Kennedy Center in style 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Given the brazen power of her instrument, a chest-rattling alto, that wasn’t quaint information; it was more like the origin myth of a superhero. Music Review | Ang?lique Kidjo: Ang?lique Kidjo: West African Music From ?Oyo? CD 2010-03-29T04:57:00Z

Even as a small child I was aware that there was a difference between reading myths and reading fairytales, or stories about real people, or stories about imaginary real people. Ragnar?k: the doom of the gods 2011-08-05T21:55:10Z

BERKELEY, Calif. — The history of oratorios is populated with great heroes of religion and myth. Review: A ‘Dreamers’ Oratorio Tries to Transcend the Trump Moment 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

With myths and bull they’ve been inundated, The hardest to reach are the least vaccinated. Style Invitational Week 1444: It’s a whole new all-game — name a sport 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

First, to bust some myths: there is no global epidemic. Mental illness: is there really a global epidemic? 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

But using this as a cover to denigrate a dead woman as well as push a damaging myth about female journalists, one that’s predictably been reinforced since on Fox News, is irresponsible. Stop defending an irresponsible movie and start apologising | Benjamin Lee 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

According to Greek myth, Hermes, the cleverest God, used his inimitable wit to tell stories so long-winded, so fatuous, that they lulled the many-eyed monster Argus to sleep. The Podcast That Tells Ingeniously Boring Bedtime Stories to Help You Fall Asleep 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

Safety is a key issue for the fair organisers, and it's another aspect of the event with a myth attached. The Hoppings – the myths and mud of Europe's biggest travelling fair 2012-06-28T06:00:00Z

He skewers the myths about soul mates and the importance of the grand gesture, and shows how TV's insistence on photogenic beauty raises unrealistic expectations. Tonight's TV highlights: A Farmer's Life For Me 2011-02-01T00:05:01Z

The myth that opera was born of a miracle dies hard. Monteverdi's 'L'Orfeo,' the first modern opera, has lessons for digital age 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

The moral, they say: Stability is a myth. Holiday Movie Release Schedule 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

“The ancestral myth is that they would never go anywhere without being armed,” she says. Perspective | People said her great-great-aunts posed as white and robbed banks. So she wrote a musical about them. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

The Greeks themselves were adept rewriters and reshapers of their own myths for dramatic purposes. Clash of the Titans and the classics 2010-04-13T10:52:00Z

As he did in his last book, “Hemingway’s Boat,” Hendrickson, a former Washington Post reporter, employs tremendously rigorous research to interrogate the myths that hang around his larger-than-life subject. Review | A look at the forces — and tragedies — that shaped Frank Lloyd Wright 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

WHO is providing myth busters on its social media channels. Coronavirus hoaxes are helping to spread fear 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

Exploding those myths isn’t such a bad premise for a novel. Review | Joshua Ferris pokes wicked fun at the suburban patriarch in ‘A Calling for Charlie Barnes’ 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

“Victory City” builds on many of the themes that have long preoccupied Rushdie — the power of myths and legend to shape history, the conflict between the forces of multiculturalism and pluralism versus fundamentalism and intolerance. Salman Rushdie Has a New Book, and a Message: ‘Words Are the Only Victors’ 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

It’s probably more myth than truth, I hope. Going Back to ‘Groundhog Day.’ Again. 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

For many years, feminists have been trying to unpick the myths that encourage men to believe that women love violent men, and yet in our mainstream culture now those myths are sloshing around, unquestioned. Why is there so much movie violence against women? 2010-06-03T21:45:00Z

And he is a myth for something that we are, that is within ourselves. A guide to Karlheinz Stockhausen's music 2013-05-07T16:40:45Z

Which is of course where the Robin Hood of myth and legend comes into play. Film: Ridley Scott?s New Spectacle Film: ?Robin Hood? 2010-05-07T23:29:00Z

This may not be a particularly exciting philosophy of history but it is important to avoid the myth of some fated or providential movement forward. | Peter Ackroyd’s London Calling 2013-09-12T13:00:12Z

Perpetuating a myth Johnson visited the set once, and soon twigged that her story was being changed beyond recognition. Dangerous Minds at 20: has the ultimate white saviour story aged well? 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

If you expose the myth of white supremacy, then he can really appreciate his own greatness too. Telling Muhammad Ali's story in full: "What really struck me the most was how much humility he had" 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z

Ms. Miller, a scholar of classical literature, has retold the myths before. Two New Books Look at Mythology With Fresh Eyes 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

All Jeremiah knows of the West are the romantic myths that he has learned from tattered dime novels, some of which feature fictionalized tales right out of Lefty’s past. Review: The Sidekick as Hero in ‘The Ballad of Lefty Brown’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

The myth tells of a famed lyre player who journeys into the underworld to rescue his beloved, Eurydice. Anaïs Mitchell Hopes to Change the World With Her First Musical 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Set mostly in Singapore, the movie leans into the conceit of its title, showing off palatial estates, opulent outfits and a customized cruise ship in a way that detractors said perpetuated old model-minority myths. For Asian American Actors, Playing a Hot Mess Is Liberating 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

A piece of wood whispers in the ear of a storyteller, who recounts a ship in Greek myth skimming the ocean’s surface, gliding between sea and sky as Orpheus strums his lyre. With Jóhann Jóhannssson and Bedroom Community, L.A. Phil tries to break through the Icelandic cliches 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

What we found debunks the three most common myths that have kept child care in the shadows of farm policy debates and points to solutions that can support farm parents. Farm families are struggling to grow their businesses in child care deserts. Can the farm bill help? 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

Still, Gates says, museums need to be aggressive about disproving the myth, especially when it comes to persuading younger visitors to become lifelong patrons. Seattle's Sandra Jackson-Dumont makes art a party 2011-05-26T18:46:02Z

In “Peerless,” ruthless competition and the toxicity of the model minority myth are among the issues addressed. How Female Playwrights Are Adapting, and Revamping, ‘Macbeth’ 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

You never reveal such a thing.I created a myth and have seen it spread around the world. That Historic Cocktail? Turns Out It’s a Fake 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

All of which is to say that the history of the internet has already been refracted too much by myth. ‘How the Internet Happened’ Review: Building a World Online 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

He held the patents, and fit the myth: a rumpled American genius whose phonograph and incandescent light bulb had already fundamentally altered the course of history. He Created the First Known Movie. Then He Vanished. 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

In addition to being a psychologist, she is also a Freudian psychoanalyst, which helps explain “why I like myths so much,” she said. A Narnia-Inspired Design, on Long Island 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Bearing his last name, yet forced to live under the crushing reality of his emotional deficits, Lisa was, in some sense, uniquely deprived of the myth. The Father of Personal Computing Who Was Also a Terrible Dad 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

Contrary to the FSA’s line that vaccines dealt with a genuine problem, North maintains that the whole salmonella and eggs debacle was a classic food scare based on myths and dodgy science. The joy of eggs – how 'nature's multivitamin' shook off the scare stories 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

Take Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, a structure that brings together so many of the book’s key threads: architecture, religion, myth, war, power, peace and pilgrimage. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: 21 Great Buildings Throughout History 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Our oldest myths speak of the life-giving power of touch. The power of touch: what will it be like when we can all connect again? 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z

In the myths, wood nymphs are supposed to stay eternally youthful and unchanged. Tori Amos hears “Little Earthquakes” differently now: “Having a teenage daughter forces me to be honest” 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

According to a pernicious myth, Tawusi Melek refused to bow before Adam and was condemned to hell, echoing Satan’s behavior in the Quran. When Rape Becomes a Weapon of War 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

As the Homeric myth is recounted here, she learns of the anguish of those in the Underworld and descends to console them. Extraordinary Creatures, and Some Elusive Ones, at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Beginning with a creation myth that casts the humble muskrat as hero, the play opens in a room filled with eight beds, a sleeping figure in each. Review: ‘The Annotated History of the American Muskrat’ Is Worried About America 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Together the five stories, which vibrate with echoes of the Arthurian legend, are the most celebrated of her books, deriving much of their power from a meeting of myth and place. Susan Cooper: a life in writing 2012-12-21T22:54:02Z

The channel has spawned some of the defining myths of this presidency and spurred Trump to adopt positions so hard-line as to be unpalatable even to congressional Republicans. The Incestuous Relationship Between Donald Trump and Fox News 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z

His version of myth, however, is, like his version of so many things, specialised and carefully limited. The Silence of Animals by John Gray – review 2013-02-15T10:20:01Z

What our critic said: “A jolt of a movie, ‘Black Panther’ creates wonder with great flair and feeling partly through something Hollywood rarely dreams of anymore: myth.” How to Watch ‘Black Panther’ Free and Other Oscar Movie Tips 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

With a Manhattan skyscraper to his name, Frank Gehry is increasingly part of the myth and legend of modern America. Frank Gehry: Dizzy heights 2011-07-05T20:30:03Z

Even long after they’re gone, the myth of the cowboy persists today in movies and popular culture. Larry McMurtry on the Power of the Plains 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

Even Mr. Goldberg’s knowledge of viciously anti-Semitic urban legends comes into play, and the book raises the myth of a Jewish girl arrested in Moscow in 1944 and accused of baking Christian blood into matzos. Review: ‘The Yid,’ Paul Goldberg’s First Novel, Taunts Stalin 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

For Knott, his grandmother’s account sparked ongoing admiration for independence and adventure, qualities that embody the myth of the West but not necessarily the realities of California’s past. Old West theme parks paint a false picture of pioneer California 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

From Romulus and Remus to Valentine and Orson, myth is full of stories of feral children raised by animals. This week's new theatre 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

Far from being the timid, removed figure of myth, she looks directly at the camera and reaches, in a half-embrace, to touch the back of her friend. ‘I’m Nobody’? Not a Chance, Emily Dickinson 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

In other words, gulp, the massively inflated art market, combined with the crumminess of much of what is being sold, may be undermining the myth that we live in an artistic golden age. Sticking it out with the stuckists 2013-01-16T15:22:31Z

Fanciful myths about the breed abound, and some public officials have compared their bites to those of sharks and tigers. In defense of the pitbull 2013-02-05T19:35:00Z

His multifaceted “Lyra” is inspired by the Orpheus myth, which is often said to be at the heart of Beethoven’s fourth concerto. Contrasts Illuminate Beethoven in Philharmonic Festival 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

“The Perfect Nine” has the hallmarks of myth: exaggeration, adventure, magic, humor. Review | ‘The Perfect Nine,’ by perennial Nobel Prize favorite Ngugi wa Thiong’o, is a mythic look at his culture’s origins 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

Her exaggerations were systematic, he demonstrates, a form of dramatization “designed . . . to contribute to the myth of herself as a writer steeped in, and shaped by, the effects of violent death and family dysfunction.” Beryl Bainbridge: The writer who used tragedy as an entry point into farce 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

Such is the magic of myths, these little twofold vessels of time that can stretch across the eras and still resonate in our everyday lives — like music. Perspective | For the new opera ‘Eurydice,’ a challenge of mythic scale: Retelling the Orpheus myth without looking back 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

It’s a family tradition, made as much from legend and myth as it is eggs and butter. I thought my cake recipe was my family’s alone. Then I traced its history. 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

This is what poetry does, of course, but it is especially important in Los Angeles, where reality is often overwhelmed by myth. In 'Wide Awake,' Suzanne Lummis gathers the poets of Los Angeles 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

So even though it’s based on a myth, with a naked figure riding a bull, in the background, there’s a figure that almost looks like a spy from the contemporary world. ‘He Raises the Bar for Me’: 4 Artists on the Influence of Bob Thompson 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Together the series is inspired by the Greek myth of Persephone, daughter of Demeter and Zeus. Inside Art: An Artist Shows His Train of Thought 2011-07-14T22:23:08Z

But I’ve always thought that the myth of the “helpless addict” who couldn’t control his own actions was preposterous. My first time scoring heroin 2013-01-01T01:00:00Z

The maternal drive, she believes, is something of a myth. ‘I want to want a baby’: can I kickstart my broody gene? 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z

There is a glaring contrast between the art of Renaissance Florence, with its passionate recreations of classical myth and history, and the raw realism of northern European portraits of businessmen. The Medicis: money, myth and mystery 2011-08-10T16:36:28Z

It was the first art book I ever read and I still think it tells a lot of truth among the myths. Picasso in Britain and Lucian Freud ? the week in art 2012-02-10T17:29:24Z

There never was an abundance of sweetness and light in the Norse myths. The best audiobooks of March 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

While it’s tempting to laugh off the idea that a creation myth should be injected into what is supposed to be a science program, maybe it’s not as zany as it initially seems. “Cosmic” meltdown! Neil deGrasse Tyson under siege from Christian right 2014-04-04T12:00:00Z

Barragán termed myth and religious experience the fountainhead of all acts of creation in his Pritzker prize address: “Without the desire for God our planet would be a sorry wasteland of ugliness.” Finding Mexico City, and Luis Barragán, Again 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

I'm fascinated, because I've been writing so long about Sambo imagery and the new Negro, the myth of the new Negro. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

The point is that conscripted featly to national symbols undermines the quixotic myth of the dispassionate sporting event.  Matt Lauer, pleasant corporate stooge: America’s double standard on politicizing the Olympics 2014-02-14T16:34:00Z

Given that the story is based on an ancient myth, the Camelot tale allows Ritchie some freedom to take liberties with the material. And your new worst film of 2017 is… “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword” 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

The recycling process hinted at here is fascinating: old myth into brand-name, brand-name into new myth, enabling the poet to give a digital "airy nothing" bodily and symbolic presence. Poem of the week: Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock 2010-10-20T12:52:00Z

Don’t believe the myth that you can’t put wine glasses in the dishwasher. The best way to wash wine glasses, according to the pros 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

He incorporated the alchemical materials of fire and melted metals and became increasingly absorbed by the Jewish myths and beliefs that the Nazis had attempted to eradicate. A life in art: Anselm Kiefer 2011-03-21T08:00:00Z

“He created a myth about his persona,” Ms. Anissimov said affectionately. Patrick Modiano, an Author of Paris Mysteries, Keeps His Own 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

Also, you touched on some other things here, some other deaths of myths. Mo Rocca on "Mobituaries," celebrity deaths and what we get wrong about Billy Carter 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

With the start of the 2016-17 Seattle Symphony season, it’s the perfect time to puncture some of the myths about the concert-hall experience. for instance: No, you don’t have to dress up. 4 myths about classical music debunked 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

“There is the myth of the Thanksgiving holiday that brings to mind for just about everybody the idea that Native Americans welcomed the Pilgrims.” Native Americans Get a Stronger Voice in the Mayflower Story 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

That may be premature, given the myth’s deep roots. Op-Ed Contributor: High Fascism 2011-03-07T06:48:00Z

Last year the Seattle Art Museum put on a show called "Kurt" that had modern artists tackle the myth of Cobain, and it drew huge audiences. EMP | SFM Nirvana exhibit recalls once-in-a-lifetime moment 2011-04-08T23:55:22Z

This myth is a common explanation for why men don’t do as much housework as women. Men do see the mess — they just aren’t judged for it the way women are 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

In fact, most of us do not take the show literally but look deeper at the meaning behind its myths and how they are metaphors for our world. 2010-01-22T17:28:00Z

Warburg was concerned about technology — the Wright Brothers were modern-day “Icaruses” and telegram and telephone technology were threatening myth and nature — as well as anti-Semitism. This Atlas of Art and Memory Is a Wonder of the Modern World 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

The appeal is obvious and at least partly rooted in the enduring American myth of exceptionalism. ‘The Suicide Squad’ Review: Train Them! Excite Them! Arm Them! 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

“I think there’s this myth and we got it, especially in the beginning, when we began this, people ask me, are you education, or are you entertainment?” he recalled. It’s the Year 2120. MasterClass Is the Only School Left. 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z

Here's where the myth comes in: During a crushing service, the bartender couldn't keep up with the frozen margarita orders. The swirly, brain-freezing origins of the frozen margarita machine 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

There’s something uncomfortably and literally childlike about this child of God, who, like the other villagers, with their pleading eyes and hands, seems like a relic from a white-savior myth. Review: Questions and Prayers Go Unanswered in Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

All these occurrences contribute to a compelling “personal myth,” which is worth a hundred good reviews. The Bizarre, Complicated Formula for Literary Fame 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

If nonbelievers ever needed proof that divine justice is a cruel myth, “Heaven Is for Real” is it. Sean Hannity, very bad critic: Fox News, Sony, Sarah Palin pal help hit movie prey on the gullible 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

My first tour I was wearing it for show; I created my own myth and believed in it. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

Films like Stagecoach, High Noon and The Searches took the white-hatted cowboy hero of our national myth and dusted him up a fair amount. Shattered Glass: why we need to stop deconstructing our superheroes 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Their instinct, then, is not to look around them but to adapt the myths of the last few hundred years, be they Mods, flappers or horse-riding dukes. | Fashion Review: In Milan, Trying to Leap the Obstacles 2011-03-01T00:06:14Z

This is the kind of funding pro-life politicians want to cut, building up the myth of the “welfare queen.” Protect the sacred lives of women: To be pro-life, you must change your life 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

If the Broadway musical “Hamilton” has shown us anything, it is that our national symbols are always more complicated than their origin myths. Colin Kaepernick and the Radical Uses of “The Star-Spangled Banner” 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

“By allowing Southerners to tell their own stories,” she says, “we fight against the myth of it being a homogenized region.” Oxford American celebrates its hard-won 25th anniversary 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

And, of course, without him, Los Angeles would be without one of its most ominous cultural myths, "Chinatown." 'Water to the Angels' dives into L.A.'s water history 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

In songs suffused with myth, her first-person lyrics speak of archetypal fathers and mothers, sailors and shepherds, gods and goddesses. Playlist: New Work From White Rabbits and Magic Youth 2012-03-11T03:09:07Z

But "Glowworm" ferociously, surgically exposes the endless capacity of humans to write and rewrite new chapters of personal myth, warding off debilitating despair every day, every moment as necessary. 'Glowworm': Funny, haunting and affirming 2011-04-18T21:59:04Z

Twenty years since the film’s release, the fusion of folklore, urban myth and modern technology holds up nicely, although anyone addicted to rapid-fire editing may now find the pace a bit stately. Top 20 Japanese horror films – ranked! 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

“That shows how we use the western myths,” he says, adding that the next great western of the Obama era was Django Unchained, which showed a black man as the gunslinger hero. 'The American epic': Hollywood's enduring love for the western 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

We'll also see a lot of the grandeur of the old myths, which will explain why they were so popular for so long. Comics: Thank God it's "Thorsday" 2011-05-04T17:48:04Z

So how did the myth of the mountain man come to be? Peter Zumthor: RIBA awards gold medal to architecture's man of mystery 2013-02-05T15:00:56Z

It is men who wrote the “book of myths / in which / our names do not appear.” Two New Volumes by Adrienne Rich, Game-Changing Feminist, Poet and Essayist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

They do all this rugged living on a land “made of myths,” as Daniel describes it. ‘Elmet’ Backs a Brawny Man Into a Dangerous Corner 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

In the Greek myth of Diana and Actaeon, the mortal hunter comes across the immortal goddess of the hunt as she bathes. The Weird Agelessness of Don Draper 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

The Architects, a contemporary retelling of the Minotaur myth, will play in a former biscuit factory in Bermondsey from 27 November. Shunt to create labyrinth in London warehouse 2012-08-14T12:19:08Z

“We want people around the country to know the real person, not just the myths and folklore,” said Cheryl Ogden, director of the Johnny Appleseed Educational Center and Museum at Urbana University in Urbana. Exhibit on real Johnny Appleseed will hit the road 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lebel is one of the people who made the myth mythical. The Beats’ Countercultural Ferment Still Bubbles, in Paris 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

"Greek myths are all pretty dramatic stories, so I've condensed them down into a series of short, punchy tabloid headlines," said Coats. Twitter fiction festival set to launch 2012-11-28T10:54:43Z

As Chris and Kay relate the facts and myths of their genealogies, it seems as if they are not connecting through shared history but pushing themselves into ever greater isolation. Review: ‘He Brought Her Heart Back,’ Adrienne Kennedy’s Beautiful Nightmare 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

He added, “To me the position of the castle in a lake epitomized that Celtic land of myth and mystery. Perhaps it’s in my genes; I am part Irish, hence my surname.” One trip, two agendas — and an Irish guide to make it work 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

There are some myths that surround the trilogy. Ontroerend Goed: touch-sensitive theatre 2013-03-11T03:20:18Z

Maybe they’ve managed to subvert the idea of the “housewife” once and for all, crawling into its navel “Matrix”-style and exploding the myth from the inside. Riff: ?Housewives,? Rebranded 2011-11-18T23:36:00Z

Tubman’s name has long loomed large in American history, but her legacy has been prone to myths and misinformation. We all know Harriet Tubman was a hero. The stars of ‘Harriet’ want you to see her humanity. 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Nsuuta lures Kirabo with the promise of finding her mother, teaching her about the rebellious start of all women and the power of myths. Set in Uganda, This Coming-of-Age Story Contains Universal Themes 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

That’s the magic Netflix is hoping to pull from “Cursed,” a live-action fantasy series created by Frank Miller and Tom Wheeler that puts the young Lady of the Lake at the center of Arthurian myth. How the Creators of ‘Cursed’ Conjured a Fresh Take on King Arthur 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

"They are our myths of poverty and survival and creativity and illness and the social in the age of the global city." It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood 2012-07-19T19:00:00Z

It is the relationship within it of Wagner's two great preoccupations: myth and psychology. What's Wagner's secret? Love, actually 2013-04-25T16:00:01Z

Doyle The myth of Demeter and Persephone really spoke to me as a woman, it spoke to me as a mother and it spoke to me as a daughter. Odysseys Into Martha Graham World, One Dramatic, the Other Abstract 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

The ambitious piece spins on six imagined myths, each with a Jungian, divine/demonic feminine motif. Review: Dance piece, offbeat comedy are horses of a different color 2011-05-18T20:16:05Z

What happens when there is no one left to correct the myths? Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

I tried to some extent to debunk that myth, but there was a sense of romanticism about that age and the Allahakbarries are clearly a part of that. Howzat? 2010-05-07T07:12:00Z

Sartre's play reworks the Electra myth from Aeschylus and Euripides, but we knew, or thought we knew, that it was based on the activities of the French resistance in Paris during the war. Once upon a life: Margaret Drabble 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

A great deal of lazy thinking, myth making, poor research and anecdotal evidence surrounds debates on the sex industry. Why doesn't Jacqui Smith take a relaxed view of pornography? 2011-02-22T18:36:48Z

"Everybody has preconceptions about mental health and it would be good if we could bust a few myths," she says. Art and minds: hospital trust brings in culture to promote wellbeing 2012-02-08T15:24:00Z

Our job as courtiers was to stop the curtain from being pulled back and to keep the bellows and pulleys going so that the myth of the great and all powerful leader was maintained. 'Tony Blair called back to see if I had blown myself up' 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

This also applies to everything around them, as Mira points out – people develop silly attachments to furniture and dream up a myth of a home. HBO's anguished "Scenes From a Marriage" is so potent, your own relationship better be rock solid 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z

But that is the fate of any form of expression and what happens to parents as they turn into the myths of their children.” Books of The Times: Hanif Kureishi Recalls His Mentor, Critic and Father 2010-03-22T20:04:00Z

Shaw refers to the Greek myth about a sculptor and his statue-come-to-life that inspired the play. Pasadena Playhouse's 'Pygmalion' is more a rethinking than a revival 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

Saville and Kelly have paid their late friend the highest possible tribute by burnishing that myth. A fitting headstone for Tony Wilson's grave 2010-10-26T19:00:00Z

“There’s a myth that all the decisions have been made, when in fact, all the decisions haven’t been made,” he says. My mentally ill sister 2012-06-02T00:00:00Z

There has been a lot of myths and analysis of just how lightning was captured in a bottle across these two days. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

Watson sweeps away the myths that have sidelined the semicolon — it’s not snooty, not rulebound — and demonstrates what impressive chops it has. A Defense of the Semicolon and Other Adventures in the English Language 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

So many myths have surfaced about Mollino since his sudden death in 1973 that it is difficult to distinguish fact from fiction. Design: The 'Diabolic' Carlo Mollino, Reanimated 2011-09-23T18:30:08Z

How fitting, then, that “Metamorphoses,” Ovid’s seminal chronicle of the world and its myths, has proved a lasting influence for Mr. Furrer, who has spun notions from that epic into several works. Music Review: Talea Ensemble and Ekmeles at the Czech Center 2013-05-17T22:02:36Z

They talked to Kieran about Manchester music, the myth of the guitar band resurgence and the merits of a skinny boiler suit. Music Weekly podcast: Everything Everything – plus the return of Suede 2013-01-10T14:48:38Z

It’s a modern-day myth that begins with a mundane betrayal. Theater Review: ‘Brand New Ancients’ Stars Kate Tempest in a Tragic Tale 2014-01-14T23:43:02Z

“The No 1 job for those in the ‘experienced’ bracket is to challenge the myths they’ve created around sex,” says the marital therapist and author of The Happy Couple’s Handbook, Andrew Marshall. 'Step away from the porn': how to have hot sex at every age 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

The book charts the channel’s birth and development, helping to demolish myths and misunderstandings about the Arab world along the way. 5 Books to Read About Qatar Before the World Cup 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

But she links it far more closely with the myth of Narcissus, in which a beautiful youth becomes dangerously enraptured by their reflection. Audrey Tautou: ‘My subject in these photos is somebody between the character and who I am’ 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z

They also wanted to slough off the original's pretty Edwardiana – it was first staged in 1904, before Barrie turned it into a novel – to reveal it as a dark and primal myth. John Tiffany: from Black Watch to Peter Pan 2010-04-05T20:35:00Z

So how do physicians and public health officials debunk the MMR–autism myth?” No link between autism and MMR, affirms major study 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

The album also contains a song called “Afterlife,” which doesn’t mention the myth but may be a nod to Hades. Brush Up on the Greek Myth That Arcade Fire Is Singing About 2013-10-29T16:35:03Z

A popular myth even traced her prodigious talent to the very heart of the Blitz. "Prima donna in pigtails": how Julie Andrews the child star embodied the hopes of post-war Britain 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z

There's this myth that it only looks good if you shoot in 3D but we have done a bunch of things that have never been done before and used techniques that have not been seen. Star Trek into Darkness boldly goes towards new 3D territory 2012-12-14T15:19:28Z

So, like a lot of myths that persist, it’s partly true. Wait, men fake orgasms? 2013-04-13T22:00:00Z

The references are briefly explained in an illustrated index, which directs readers to other stories: Norse myths, “The Chronicles of Narnia,” and so on. Françoise Mouly’s Toon Graphics Takes Comics to Classrooms 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

"His head erect, and pride in his eye, I saw him running forward, with bayonet fixed. Soon he disappeared," Baer described the final scene — and the myth of Seeger emerged. 100 years later: Alan Seeger's global commitment lingers 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z

There is a strange sense of almost antediluvian time operating in this atmospheric collection, and intriguing hints at lives influenced more by myth than by history. New Southern Fiction By Percival Everett, Wiley Cash and Andrew Siegrist 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

He quickly moved on to Norse, Native American and Egyptian myths, and ultimately discovered “The Mighty Thor,” from Marvel, which explores Norse mythology. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: George O'Connor On Greek Myths 2012-02-24T17:49:29Z

Making pictures on star-filled movie sets and sun-drenched beaches, Mr. Gowland contributed to the myth of California as a postwar paradise. Peter Gowland, Pinup Photographer and Author, Dies at 93 2010-04-05T02:49:00Z

A survey by Columbia Business School in New York of 1,500 companies over a 20-year period suggests that female in-fighting is a myth. ‘Queen Bee syndrome’: the myth that keeps working women in their little box 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

At its best, as in his celebrated 1988 study of Greek myth, “The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony,” it is thrilling. Before He Died, the Writer Roberto Calasso Had the Old Testament on His Mind 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

Phaeton,” a retelling of the Greek myth by Michael Milligan, opens April 29, with Kyd directing, longtime local dance instructor Kelly King providing choreography, and Gilbert starring as Phile. Riot Grrrls says no to all-female ‘Taming of the Shrew’ 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

“I’m a critic of the myth of the cowboy,’’ he told an interviewer in 1988. Larry McMurtry, Novelist of the American West, Dies at 84 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

It’s how we got fire, how Hermes became a God, how so much great myth, art, & literature has been conceived — acts of thievery and transgression, which restore a certain sort of balance.” Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z

As Percy embarks on an adventure to rescue his mother, who is only a muggle—sorry, a mortal—he traverses a landscape of jumbled-up Greek myths. 'Clash of the Titans': Ancient Greece and Us 2010-03-19T20:01:00Z

They are practices built on exclusionary stories and feelings, transformed into familiar myths, including that of the American dream. The iconic American inventor is still a white male — that’s an obstacle to race and gender inclusion 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

And then there is “Hadestown,” the contemporary retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. There’s Great Dance on Broadway. Hello, Tony Awards? 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

As Neffe writes, “Albert Einstein was reborn as legend and myth, idol and icon of an entire era.” Missing the Eclipse? Read All About It. 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

“I am more interested in how these myths survive and resonate today than I am in making a topical social commentary,” he said. The Orchestra Brawls in a ‘Beer and Pizza’ Oedipus Opera 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Look no further than Snopes.com for handy examples submitted by readers of the website that collects and debunks urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors and misinformation. 6 geezers laying? Holidays bring on song botches 2013-12-11T14:48:03Z

Politicians, he says, have been much too deferential to the myths and powers of the financial system. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z

I spoke with these three artists about how their work reflects on the power of myths in shaping and reimagining identities for Black women — in essence offering new universal stories. How Three Artists Are Exploring Mythology and Race 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

His sister appears in Pathfinder, the great film about one of their myths. Life on the ice: one last hunt for Norway's sealers 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Mr. Landsburg executive produced “In Search Of . . . ,” which explored the gap between reality and myth. Alan Landsburg, Emmy-winning producer, dies at 81

Even without such a contraption, the show's stars hope the exhibit will bust what they say is the biggest myth of all: Science is just for nerds. MythBusters exhibition opens in Chicago 2012-03-15T15:31:15Z

Now were the moms I was talking to a bit too wrapped up in the good mother myth, with all their fretting about breast is best and crying it out? The tyranny of the “bad mother”: Slacker moms are just as intimidating as perfect ones 2014-02-17T23:00:00Z

Or, as Charles Widmore put it, "Everything else I know is a combination of myths, ghost stories, and jungles in the night." Help! We're trapped by "Lost"! 2010-05-08T23:01:00Z

He wrote enthusiastically about the byways of Christian theology and classical myth.” ‘The Complete Works of Auden’ showcases writings beyond the poetry 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

We discover a very different Van Gogh from the one of popular myth that he was just a crazy artist who cut off his ear and eventually killed himself. 2010-01-19T14:14:00Z

For now, it’s about time fashion woke up and started rewriting its own myths. Even ‘Project Runway’ Couldn’t Save Zac Posen 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

As a writer in Hollywood, there’s a well-worn myth that your enemy is the network or the studio or the producer or the director, that it’s a “Barton Fink” experience. ArtsBeat: That's News to Him: Aaron Sorkin on 'The Newsroom' and His Steve Jobs Screenplay 2012-06-07T13:00:24Z

There are a couple of incidents that could have sparked this myth. Halloween myths and urban legends that just won't die 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

When Ms. Baird goes after those myths, her alternative versions are exhilarating. Review: ‘Victoria the Queen’ Delves Into Her Epic Reign 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

The love story is appealing as myth, she continued, “but why do we remember it as a love story?” A New ‘Wuthering Heights,’ From Andrea Arnold 2012-09-30T04:27:19Z

Naturally, the war is a sham, justified by some dusty religious text that deems unicorns evil, a myth that the repressed Bluey latches on to with notable zeal. ‘Unicorn Wars’ Review: Teddy Bears in Battle 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

Early on, the Museum of Modern Art developed a snugly tailored origin myth for modern art itself. MoMA, the New Edition: From Monumental to Experimental 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

It’s difficult to imagine a myth riper for harvest than that of Cassandra, the tragic Greek figure who uttered prophecies no one believed. In This Updated Myth, Female Intuition Goes Nuclear 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

But Lee’s too much the clear-eyed realist to peddle that myth, and it’s wrenching when Mallory characterizes his home-brew sessions as “down to the level of a bad demo or bootleg.” In Don Lee’s ‘Lonesome Lies Before Us,’ a singer tries to make one last comeback 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Janet Mock, author of “Redefining Realness” and producer and interviewer for the “Trans List” film, said the collection of “voices, experiences, tragedies and triumphs” will “dispel myths that often fuel misinformation, injustice and violence.” 'Show the struggle, but also the great accomplishment,' says photographer behind minority photo series 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

"The power of the Midwest is that it is the sanctifying myth of America," she writes. Surviving "God Land" in the age of Trump: Lyz Lenz on faith, politics and the Midwest 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

Rankine intersperses lines of text with images that conjure black history and myth. Taxidermy Is a Metaphor for Our Time 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Many think he was a myth; perhaps even that the deeds ascribed to him were clubbed together from the legend of an ancient god. King Arthur: Keira and the grumpy knights of the unsound table 2011-01-27T14:45:06Z

Part truth and part myth, it represents the ideal of what Americans want to be, Smith said, “our best selves.” That now-famous Plymouth gathering didn’t jump-start Thanksgiving 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Colbert then goes on to dispel the myth that there has ever been a razor blade in any piece of candy. Sexy teenage vampire Stephen Colbert’s Halloween warning: “A marauding orange monster is on the loose and it’s not Donald Trump” 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z

Buildings, statues and inscriptions turned his Scottish garden into a text, written in nature, ripe with myth and history, Apollo and Pan cavorting among stone submarines and hand grenades. Britain's garden state 2010-06-08T20:29:00Z

And, indeed, these two sites in the southwest of England are epic and romantic, the stuff of myth and mystery. The Weird, Mystic Pull of Southwest England 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

But to a certain extent, Mr. Mulier’s job, at least for now, is to compromise: to navigate between past and present, between a myth and a business. Hello, Paris Fashion! Couture Returns With Pieter Mulier’s Alaïa Debut 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z

Though they are often outlandish, some of the myths do have a grain of truth – making them all the more potent. Halloween myths and urban legends that just won't die 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

He'd rather keep a dangerous hazard right where it is, since moving it disturbs the point around which his precious family's myth is built. In comedy "Rutherford Falls," Ed Helms is a nice guy who prefers the myth of his whitewashed history 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Deep in the bowels of Disney+, a clutch of self-serving documentaries reveal how drunk the company has become on its own myth over the years. ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

Is it the myth that baking is fussy, that it's a precise science, that it's hard? A 3-ingredient cheesecake, no measuring needed 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Cancel culture is part of the firm’s origin myth. Perspective | Did Facebook ‘cancel Abe Lincoln’? The truth is complicated — and alarming. 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

This perception is, of course, rooted in myth.  March Madness and the NCAA purity lie: How the billion-dollar basketball-industrial complex blinds us to our biggest flaws 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

It’s one thing to deconstruct a myth, but what should one do with all of the fragments left behind? Review | ‘. . . (Iphigenia)’ is an opera in the form of a question 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

Despite the many, many myths, you write that it's not New York City water that makes a difference for their bagels — it's the high-gluten flour. Bagels, lox and schmear: Cathy Barrow reveals how to make a whole brunch of deli classics at home 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

It’s a myth that the cocktail was invented in New Orleans. In New Orleans, terrific cocktails never went out of fashion

The Orpheus and Eurydice myth, so deep with associations in dance history, is invoked only to be turned away from. Review: Richard Alston Dance Says Adieu in (Quiet) Character 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

The Last Week Tonight host went on to more seriously probed the issue, discussing both the burgeoning anti-vaxxing movement and the many previously debunked myths about the harms of the practice. John Oliver on vaccines: 'One of humanity's most incredible accomplishments' 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

He drew more from ancient Chinese myths and legends. Ni Kuang, Prolific Hong Kong Novelist and Screenwriter, Dies at 87 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

In Edith Hamilton’s version of the myth, which is reprinted in the Penguin book, Europa is attracted to the bull. Beauty and the Bestiality 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

“Gathering Light” widens the picture, drawing from a wealth of experience on tour — and, more obliquely, from 16th-century Hebraic myth. New Music: Albums From Sohn, Oran Etkin and Pedro Luis Ferrer 2014-04-07T21:31:47Z

It is an unexpected and jolly, if bittersweet, development, and one rather closer to Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” than to traditional Greek myth. Turning Circe Into a Good Witch 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

When she challenges the myth, it is nearly always met with debate. “Oh, girl, get up. You got this”: Why the “strong black woman” stereotype is an albatross 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

It’s okay to eat food you drop on the ground as long as you grab it within five seconds of the drop, or so the myth goes. 25 “facts” that really aren’t: You’ve heard them all your life and they just aren’t true 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

Mr Barr tackles another popular myth, often referred to as the “skyscraper curse”. The up and up 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

“Hadestown,” a pulsing, poetic contemporary riff on an ancient Greek myth, won the Tony Award for best new musical Sunday night, triumphing over film adaptations, a musical comedy and a jukebox show. ‘Hadestown’ Triumphs at 2019 Tony Awards 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z

By the 80s, the Indiana Jones series posited that pretty much every religious or occult myth was real – the Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Grail, Hinduism, etc. Black magic surgeon: Doctor Strange brings the occult back to the big screen 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

I am a white, middle-class Englishman, openly trespassing on the music and myth of the American south. Hugh Laurie plays first ever blues gig 2011-03-23T00:05:03Z

As the stories progress, that solitary figure gets caught up in a myth and a rite. Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

This myth is one of the biggest causes of discontent, because we assume that if we are not fulfilled at 50, we never will be. Midlife crisis? It’s a myth. Why life gets better after 50 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

University of Washington classics professor Blondell explores the paradoxes and ambiguities surrounding the story of Helen, an enduring myth about the destructive power of beauty. NW books: The evolution of Seattle’s gay community 2013-05-13T21:18:06Z

It’s a story of God, nation and myth. Review: Questions and Prayers Go Unanswered in Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

But Chauncey DeVega argues against the "myth of a great white Anglo-Saxon leadership class" and the "white supremacist public policies" that elevated them. Is “WASP nostalgia” just a dog whistle? 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

Unfortunately, he doesn’t illuminate how the myth relates to the documented bodysnatching from Black cemeteries by doctors, an elision which consigns warranted African-American fears to the realm of horror stories and folklore. When a Black Man’s Heart Was Transplanted Without Consent 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

Yet both dimensions need to be honored in performance if this play — a furious myth revealing stark truths about humanity's fundamental condition — is to achieve its full cathartic power. With age, the wisdom of staging 'Lear' becomes less clear 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

That range, from primal myth to science fiction, is representative. Familiar Tales Remixed, at the Hands of a Postmodern Master 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

The enduring myth of that era’s New Hollywood is largely the rejuvenation of Old Hollywood, with the exception of of a handful of masterworks that broke more molds than they reinforced. The Brian De Palma Conundrum 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

It included the myth that you should tip flight attendants for good service. Gene Weingarten: Mythunderstood

As a cardiologist and professor of nutrition, I’d like to clear up some of the confusion with five myths and five facts about meat. Should you avoid meat for good health? How to slice off the facts from the fiction 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

The technique, with its distancing effect, helps question the myth, even as it draws unflattering attention to how we’re watching dancers trying to act. Dance on Film Is the Only Game in Town. BalletX Takes the Field. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

For Turner, in the Romantic era in 1829, Greek myth inspires a blazing, limitless vision of space and imagination – and it is just that for Harryhausen too. Ray Harryhausen matched JMW Turner for special effects genius 2013-05-08T12:47:49Z

So that whole adage of Black don't travel, was a myth, is a myth. "Lovecraft Country" star: "It's a shame that men and women are being accosted and lynched" today 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z

Atlas Pit or The Garbage Man’s Son Los Angeles New Court Theatre presents Alex Burkart’s new drama, inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, about a Wisconsin teen traumatized by his girlfriend’s tragic death. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 25-Oct. 2: 'Phoebe Zeitgeist Returns to Earth' and more 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Working with a team of editors, he introduces Presley, the man and the myth, using an onslaught of archival images and sounds. Review: ‘The King’ Chases the American Dream and Elvis 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

While some natural winemakers dogmatically avoid using sulfur as a natural preservative, Feiring tolerates “minimal sulfite” additions in a section on myths. 3 of the year’s best wine books for holiday gift-giving 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

But nostalgia is a stubborn thing, which explains the myth of the Georgetown dinner party. What really happened at those famous Georgetown dinner parties 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

Thompson's 10 interlinked tales, longlisted for the Man Booker this week, deconstruct genre and myth while remaining original and superbly unsettling. Debut fiction roundup – reviews 2012-07-27T21:55:04Z

Among his themes are the continuing impact of colonialism and the symbolism of myths. Lyrical honour 2011-01-20T07:47:14Z

Inspired by the resilience and optimism displayed by residents of the retirement community, Ms. Turk wanted to create an upbeat “Shoreline”-like experience that would shatter myths of helpless senior citizens. Elders and an Artist Bring a Social Sculpture to Life 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

But it is also why hip-hop narratives, like the “Walk This Way” saga, continue to hold so much appeal, almost as America’s national fable: They reinforce the myth of the American dream. Run-DMC, Aerosmith and the Song That Changed Everything 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

This is part of the way “Hamilton’s America” dispels the myth around Hamilton, humanizing him by looking at his flaws while also appreciating his hustle — the soul of rap culture. “Hamilton’s America” takes us into the rooms where it happened 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Even the myth of Arthur ends with everyone dead in a battle. What's wrong with a little escapism in art? | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-26T11:04:00Z

Her second brilliant stroke was to photograph outdoors, amid trees and fields, scrubbing off journalistic or sociological details of the institutional settings and entering the universal realm of dream and myth. Arbus, Untitled and Unearthly 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

The story is inspired by a myth that after 100 years, tools and instruments attain souls and trick people. | 'The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014': Oscar Shorts, From Surreal to Oh So Real 2014-01-30T22:56:19Z

After getting the all-clear, she grabbed a book about Greek myths for her son. As London Bookstores Reopen, Eager Readers Return 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

Part of Presley’s persistent deification has to do with the ways in which he embodies a very specific and intoxicating American myth: from very little, more. Going to Graceland 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

In national myth, the war years and their aftermath have been cast as our most glorious time, and one of the eras in which British films were at their best. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z

It’s an utterly absorbing, utterly enlightening, utterly important book about classism in American higher education and the myth of meritocracy. How Libraries Saved Cheryl Strayed 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

So we go back to legend and myth, and call them monsters. Ian Rankin: 'I am, of course, a frustrated rock star' 2012-11-18T00:05:11Z

That real life episode induced the Márquez novel “Of Love and Other Demons,” and became yet another illustration of the strange dance of myth and reality, fiction and truth, in Cartagena. Love and Cartagena: Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez Dreamed Here 2010-04-29T22:16:00Z

Mapplebeck hopes her films will challenge what she sees as reductive cultural myths about cancer – the notion that it’s either an alien curse or a welcome opportunity for personal growth. Cold war experiments and storybook monsters - back to Venice's VR island 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

Yet where Strauss put the blood and horror right into the music of his riveting opera, Milhaud tells the story with a restraint and an objectivity that enrich the antiquity of the myth. Music Review: Salzburg Festival Features Wolfgang Rihm 2010-07-30T22:59:00Z

Conservative lawmakers continue to exploit the myth that all poor people are blowing taxpayer money on all kinds of exciting and nefarious things. 5 reasons drug testing welfare recipients is profoundly stupid 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z

So this book is about monster stories, which range from classic fairytales and myths to modern-day horror stories and even true crime stories. "We all want to be the final girl": Sady Doyle on true crime, slasher films and surviving patriarchy 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

But while Abu-Lughod’s work provides a theoretical critique of Western insouciance and obstinacy in holding on to the myth of Muslim helplessness, Kamaly’s book hands up the lived examples. These Are the Faces of Muslim Women Throughout History 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

"It was an ironic debunking of the myth of artists as carefree troubadours who don't concern themselves with business," says Ware. Forgive us our synths ? how 80s pop found favour again 2010-11-18T23:33:00Z

Syracuse's urge to believe in the selkie myth is rooted in the misery of his own existence. Ondine Review: A Fish-Out-of-Water Fairytale 2010-06-03T22:50:00Z

In poems like the groundbreaking “Diving into the Wreck,” Rich clearly chooses reality over myth in order to create room within the poems to confront what was broken in our common lives: Adrienne Rich’s Poetic Transformations 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Euripides, who sometimes hewed to that narrative line, is comfortable reinventing myths to suit his own dramatic purposes. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

So why, then, did the myth of Patient Zero live on for so long? Why did it take so long for science to debunk the Aids 'Patient Zero'? | Steven W Thrasher 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

It is a still-stimulating reflection on the relationship between the senses of ending – of satisfying or inevitable conclusion – offered in religion and myth, and those offered in literary fiction. Sir Frank Kermode obituary 2010-08-18T13:20:00Z

He returns in this spinoff series, which features Savage alongside a panel of children working to test the veracity of yet more myths. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘grown-ish’ and ‘Atlanta’ 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

His interest in our passive acceptance of endless foreign war, bloody myths and social class divide is only occasionally betrayed by muted horror. Review | A Basque author contemplates a complex city in ‘Nevada Days’ 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

The chemical imbalance myth took shape in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when those accidental discoveries were cobbled together into a theory about neurotransmitters. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Gary Greenberg Talks About 'The Book of Woe' 2013-05-29T17:00:01Z

While reveling in its cleverness, I found the relentless imposition of modernity on the Santa myth a mite depressing. Arthur Christmas: Santa Goes Corporate 2011-11-22T16:00:38Z

“I’m not trying to go out there and convert people, but it’s just so glaringly stupid — such an obvious intellectual embarrassment and an obvious myth from the pre-science era.” Bill Maher is smug, outspoken and just might get a congressman voted out of office

And all of these moves were couched within an explanatory discourse — patched together from biology, psychology, myth and popular culture — as elaborate and knotty as any theological system proposed by 13th-century scholasticism. Art Review: ‘Subliming Vessel,’ Drawings of Matthew Barney, at Morgan 2013-05-09T21:05:25Z

Optics had always been essential to his prestige brand, so it made a certain amount of sense that he relied upon an industry the sells illusions to help maintain his myth. Fashion Breaks Its Silence on Harvey Weinstein Scandal 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

McCraney's work, a gumbo of myth, poetry and musical fragments, registers an impatience with realism even when capturing a moment with just the right messy detail. Keeping the faith in Tarell Alvin McCraney's 'Head of Passes' 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Imagine a series looking at the Orpheus myth over time, from Monteverdi to Birtwistle. The Met Opera Is Struggling. How Can It Fill Those Empty Seats? 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

In these and other ways this production deconstructs the Orpheus myth and Gluck’s opera. Dance Review: Pina Bausch’s ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’ From Paris Opera Ballet 2012-07-22T20:20:07Z

To understand how a limestone-and-glass building on 14th and R streets NW ended up with same name as your high school best friend, it helps to know the origin myth. From ‘Liz’ to ‘The Jason’: The bizarre trend of fancy apartments with human names 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

That’s crucial, because the series is structured around the songs, which in some cases were originally written to synthesize the myth and the reality of Jones and Wynette’s turbulent relationship. ‘George & Tammy’ Review: We’re Gonna Hold On (Until We Don’t) 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

She, for example, is the smart, tomboyish character named Miss Arrow, who knows a lot about myth; Bono is the overenthusiastic Jimmy-6. A Broadway Superlative for All the Wrong Reasons 2011-03-13T23:28:26Z

Herber’s myth and history-inspired sculptural paintings on battered cardboard often depict catastrophe, but stress the force of nature over that of mankind. Review | In the galleries: A pictorial stew examines the seamy side along the corridors of power 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

And despite my efforts in this space over the past decade, some myths persist about wine at Thanksgiving. Four Thanksgiving wine strategies — and five great bottles for your table 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

Steven Mackey is far from the first composer to try his hand at the Orpheus myth, but he may be the first to treat it in what he calls a wordless opera for electric guitar. Spitfire Fiddling: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

There are good, clear explanations of Lewis's ideas about myth, the distinctions he made between the "imaginary" and the "imaginative", or "allegory" and "supposal". CS Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet by Alister McGrath – review 2013-05-08T09:00:04Z

As a working mother in London in the 1980s, she was furious with the myths and clichés surrounding Indian cuisine, which as she noted in her book were established during British colonial rule. A Classic Indian Cookbook Returns, This Time for Americans 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

We will come back to the beanbags, but first a little insight into a widely held myth about how we learn. Ditch the 10,000 hour rule! Why Malcolm Gladwell’s famous advice falls short 2014-04-20T15:30:00Z

Yeats was already mining Irish myth and folklore. Poem of the week: The Sorrow of Love by WB Yeats 2010-08-09T09:17:00Z

In other words, Hollywood has always sold a myth, one that still maintains a strong hold on the popular imagination. A Hollywood Hedonist Turns Ninety-Five 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

House revels in cases of the unobvious, which also means exploding the myth of hospital consultants as all-knowing demigods of their own universe. House: the science of drama 2010-10-05T05:59:00Z

"We are at the end of a terrific season for CBS," said Moonves, who once again sought to bust what he called the "myth" that the network is a destination for gray-haired viewers. CBS thumps chest, teases 'noisy' new shows for 2015-16 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

Schnabel draws on themes and images from myth, religion, film and plenty of prior art, but the references only nominally thicken the plot. New and unimproved: the spectacle of Julian Schnabel 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

For Boynton, it was a chance to explore "a much darker side" of the woman behind the "Let them eat cake" myth. Lucy Boynton on playing the misunderstood Marie Antoinette: "She had this rebellious streak to her" 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

All interesting subjects have exactly five myths associated with them, never more or less. Gene Weingarten: Mythunderstood

His best-known book, "The Hero with a Thousand Faces," argues that the key myths and religions of many cultures are actually a single story about a heroic quest. 'Finding Joe': This journey lacks some bliss 2011-10-27T20:15:06Z

Cons: Just as with the story of Eve and the apple, this is a misogynist creation myth that blames all the misery and sin in the world on women. “Cosmic” meltdown! Neil deGrasse Tyson under siege from Christian right 2014-04-04T12:00:00Z

Mine, with two beds placed back-to-back and a circular mirror on the ceiling with a remote-controlled chromatic lighting system, was named after the Acis and Galatea myth, famous throughout the island. The Sights and Smells of Sicily’s Second City 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

He said he was keen to put straight some myths about him. Murdoch 'never asked a UK prime minister for anything' 2012-04-25T12:48:00Z

It is also where the 1389 Battle of Kosovo, a defining event in the creation myth of Serbian civilization, took place. The Medieval Monasteries of Kosovo 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Leave it to the so-called “Real Housewives,” the sideshow freaks of America’s family circus, to embrace this happily divorced myth with gusto. Riff: The Divorce Delusion 2011-07-08T04:00:45Z

“We want to dispel the myth that illuminated manuscripts are attractive just to book types. We want people to appreciate them as objects.” From the Monastery to the Auction Salesroom 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

Like the tigers in that previous book, the camels in “Inland” function as creatures of inflated myth and wonder more than they do as complicated mammals with earthly problems of their own. Téa Obreht Follows Up an Acclaimed Debut With a Visit to the Old West 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

In other words, menstrual syncing is a myth up there with periods being tied to the waxing and waning of the moon. Do women’s periods synchronise when they spend time together? 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

The book I was most pleased to receive when I was a kid was a collection of Greek myths and legends. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z

“This is a myth, the connection between attractiveness and fertility,” said Holly Finn, the author of ‘The Baby Chase,’ an e-book released this summer. Fertility Is a Matter of Age, No Matter How Young a Woman Looks 2011-08-31T20:39:17Z

One of the silliest myths about Shaw is that he was a heartless brainbox: in fact he knew exactly how to orchestrate emotion, as demonstrated by Candida's final speech. Candida – review 2013-07-11T13:23:00Z

The dire Rock Of Ages showed just how the myths of teenage rock'n'roll rebellion have degraded into a form of pantomime that's so tame even Tom Cruise can pass as a rock god. It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood 2012-07-19T19:00:00Z

This was the third part of a trilogy of collections, titled “American, Also,” which is conceived to reconcile American myth and black history. A Message of Useful Beauty from New York Fashion Week 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

René Girard, whose explorations of literature and myth helped establish influential theories about how people are motivated to want things, died on Nov. 4 at his home in Stanford, Calif. He was 91. René Girard, French Theorist of the Social Sciences, Dies at 91 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, it destroyed the lives of five children while making things worse for countless others by promoting the hideous myth that black men pose a unique danger to white women. Perspective | The slippery moral calculus of Linda Fairstein 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

“Born in the USA” continues to explore the emotional geography of adulthood, but with a subtle interrogation of American reality and myth. Springsteen’s “Rising”: How Bruce reclaimed his role as a vital voice for America 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

The year was 1999, four years after Diana threw a grenade into the royal myth by declaring that “there were three of us in this marriage” — meaning she, Charles and Camilla. In the Footsteps of Charles III 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

Billy the Kid, the 19th-century gunfighter memorialized through more than 140 years of pop culture, carries with him countless myths and renditions, a different Billy for each generation’s needs — the pariah, the victim, the Everyman. In This ‘Billy the Kid,’ the Wounds Are Those You Cannot See 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

For the rest of us, the group’s invincibility myth seems to have finally collapsed under a more universal truth: The only reason life has meaning is because it ends. Review | The Rolling Stones want to teach you how to live forever 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z

The exhibition, which is organized chronologically, looks at how the artist’s work evolved throughout his career, and how he turned in his later years toward allegory and myth. Post-Pop Art in Shanghai and Psychedelia in Liverpool: Global Arts Guide 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Orphée, though, is a relatively straightforward chamber opera in two acts, using nine singers and a chamber orchestra to unfold the Orpheus myth as a 20th-century parable of artistic creativity. Glass: Orph?e 2010-09-30T22:00:00Z

Before the 17th century, we read, “people in Britain had limited understanding of their past and were strongly influenced by pagan or Christian beliefs and ancestral myths.” Critic?s Notebook: ?Making History? and ?Remembering Shakespeare? at Yale 2012-03-22T22:50:43Z

Theaters are superstitious places, sites of myth, ceremony and invocation. Break a Leg but Never Whistle: How Stage Superstitions Live On 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Michael Evans/Zuma Press/Corbis The cowboy tradition was reinvented in our times as the established myth of Reagan's America. The myth of the cowboy 2013-03-20T18:00:01Z

How did you balance loyalty to the details of the vampire and werewolf myths with making them your own? ArtsBeat: Werewolves, Vampires and Shrinks, Oh My: Glen Duncan Talks About 'Talulla Rising' 2012-06-27T14:52:44Z

The myth she seeks to expose is that evil people are somehow qualitatively different. Gitta Sereny led us through our own darkness 2012-06-19T14:57:19Z

This contempt relies on three common myths about the arts. Why do some theatre critics seem to be enjoying the arts cuts? 2011-04-08T14:46:10Z

Then there are those old, popular myths about art, which suggest that some kind of suffering or conflict is essential to depth of vision and emotional authenticity — and did Rubens ever really stumble? Review | Rubens had it all — fame, fortune, good looks. But you can’t hate him. 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

There was this myth, Smith recalled, that if you got good enough at your instrument, "the prison walls would fall down." Festival of Books: Poetry, from sonnets to the 'language of the street' 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

It counters the myth that modern audiences crave heightened sensory experiences rather than straight plays: O'Neill and Williams deal with the most basic human emotions of love and loss. In praise of ? Northampton 2010-05-03T23:05:00Z

It’s a myth that, as Pang notes, goes back to the Industrial Revolution. Arianna Huffington on a Book About Working Less, Resting More 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

Organized by Starr Figura, working with Lotte Johnson of the Modern’s drawings and prints department, the show accomplishes this feat without an iota of blockbuster grandstanding or romancing the myth of the artist-rebel. Art Review: ‘Gauguin: Metamorphoses’ at MoMA Goes Beyond Paintings 2014-03-13T19:24:47Z

The reason the Borgia and Kennedy myths never die is particularly obvious now, when the world is reeling from the likes of Saddam Hussein, Hosni Mubarak and Col. Television Review: The Power Brokers: Fathers, Sons, Dynasties 2011-03-31T20:00:05Z

Williams knew why people were congratulating him: They were perpetuating the racist and pervasive myth of the “missing black father,” which purports that black fathers are too often absent from their children’s lives. A dad posted joyful photos of black fathers to shatter stereotypes. Then it became a movement. 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

Irish republicanism is wreathed in myths, but in this clear-headed, unsentimental play, Bean suggests one of the few fixed truths is that the cause's adherents sell their soul for a lifetime of pain. The Big Fellah 2010-09-27T20:29:00Z

Most recently, Mr. Coogler directed “Black Panther,” which was set partly in Oakland and shattered a Hollywood myth about the overseas viability of movies rooted in black culture. Oakland in Their Bones, and in Their Films 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

Like the spurious right-wing myth of the self-made man, these stories elide the universal need for help. The labor laws of the superhero universe amount to disturbing propaganda 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z

He sprinkled his work with echoes of shamanistic myth and the ancient histories of Mesoamerica. Francisco Toledo Embodied the Activist Soul of Oaxaca 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

Unlike a lot of baseball books — including some very good ones, like Bernard Malamud’s “The Natural” or Chad Harbach’s more recent “The Art of Fielding” — it doesn’t traffic in myth or metaphor or larger meaning. A Winning Baseball Novel by the Editor of The Paris Review 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

Of the mother character, Masako, she said, “I wanted to sort of dismantle the myth of the submissive Asian mother as well as the tiger mom Asian mother.” Leah Nanako Winkler Is Awarded the 2018 Yale Drama Series Prize 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

Who cares about the men, the myths, the legends? Baby chimpanzee killed by adult at L. A. Zoo 2012-06-27T13:33:00Z

The panel busted health myths and answered questions crisply. Gabby Logan: radio review 2010-08-11T07:01:00Z

On one side of each card is a colorful illustration; on the flip side, a narrative of what inspired the drink — typically some sort of ancient myth — and the ingredients. In Wales, inventive cocktails without the mumbo-jumbo 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

Has his love of storytelling and the creation of modern myths bled into his own life story until he can no longer tell the two apart? Jonathan Ross meets Jim Steranko, his comic-book hero 2010-07-20T23:10:00Z

And I’m off, not to the dentist or the shopping mall but, mentally, striding emerald slopes, making for a place of myth. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Under palm trees, they listened to talks — for instance, Laura King broke down the myth that “happy people are stupid.” Happiness Inc. 2013-04-19T23:30:21Z

The response has been a spate of new plays deeply rooted in local myths and landscape. The Gift and the Glory | Theatre review 2010-04-04T21:30:00Z

A good amount of that discourse is destroying myths around the post-Obama era and race. The American media has no idea how to talk about race on-screen 2013-12-05T00:00:00Z

Cons: Misogyny, just like in the Bible and the Greek creation myth. “Cosmic” meltdown! Neil deGrasse Tyson under siege from Christian right 2014-04-04T12:00:00Z

Elliott, an associate professor of creative writing and English at Whitman College, layers suspense with Greek myth, native legend and personal back stories to create an existentialist puzzle. ‘Temple Grove’: war over Olympic Peninsula’s old trees 2013-05-22T23:10:19Z

As with so many sea animals, the charisma of the octopus lies in its other-worldliness, with centuries of myth and legends about these mysterious others in the songs and stories of fishermen. Why the ethics of octopus farming are so troubling 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

“Conversely, American society is pretty segregated, but the myth it exports is of a racial melting-pot, everyone solving crimes and fighting aliens side by side.” The Handmaid's Tale's race problem 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

This is a key point: Spafford does not illustrate these myths. Three Seattle galleries join forces to display works of artist Michael Spafford 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

The exhibition dispels some myths about the fire, including the tale of Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicking over a candle and starting the fire in the family’s barn. Revisiting the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

In other words, progress is a myth, process our reality. Mark de Silva talks about his novel 'Square Wave,' a paean to process 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

But Millet’s light touch never falters; in this time of great upheaval, she implies, our foundational myths take on new meaning and hope. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

Re-emerging with a Baroque take on a myth about the power of music felt appropriate. Best Classical Music of 2021 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

That sense of overcoming intransigent obstacles is an enduring feature of Mr. Jarrett’s myth. Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

“Just with the Hawaiian myth we adapted, there’s an Oahu version, there’s a Kauai version, there are even regional differences within the islands themselves,” she said. How (and Why) Maui Got So Big in ‘Moana’ 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

The play exposes the hollowness not only of our politicians but of the myths that maintain the losing status quo. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Chandor's "A Most Violent Year" and can be seen in an early scene in "Interstellar" as part of a duo explaining to Matthew McConaughey that space exploration was a Cold War myth. In 'Selma,' David Oyelowo digs deep to play Martin Luther King Jr. 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

Every event is ambiguous enough to be at home in a myth or koan. Chloe Aridjis’s “Sea Monsters” Is a Hypnotic Narrative of Disenchantment 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

But the more you talk to owners who have been revamped, Chef Irvine-style, the more a deeper theme emerges: the myth of the management consultant. What Happens After ‘Restaurant: Impossible’ Leaves Town 2012-07-10T21:00:58Z

"I'm interested," he said at one point, "in how much people buy into the myth of where their place is in society." TV review: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry; Joely Richardson on Shakespeare's Women 2012-06-19T22:05:01Z

My dad scoffs at a book claiming the Neanderthals are scientific myth. My return to the Creation Museum 2012-07-31T00:00:00Z

Market analysts say such works are tapping into a resurgence of interest in Hindu myths and the earliest history of India. Record advance 2013-03-04T19:00:52Z

In a reversal of the Greek myth that inspired Ulisses’s name, it is he who waits for Lóri as she traverses the night. ‘The Book of Delights’ Review: A Heady Romance 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

And, I tied it into the Latin version of an ancient myth. That Historic Cocktail? Turns Out It’s a Fake 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

“I don’t feel that it’s a myth that pertains, and since it’s a part of my heritage I feel it’s a legitimate task to criticize it.’ Larry McMurtry, Novelist of the American West, Dies at 84 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

The myth is that this will somehow kill theaters. WarnerMedia admits that 2021 HBO Max streaming plan got off to “bumpy” start 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

“The myths about TR are mostly true — there’s no way I can do what he did. I wouldn’t talk about it, but it’s pretty intimidating to have such a larger-than-life ancestor.” When Truman is your grandpa: The complicated lives of presidential descendants 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Its only value is in helping dispel the myth of Hollywood's supposed liberal bias. "The Hunt" is pro-Trump propaganda 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z

The chapters are enlivened by the poems that Raami's father writes and recites, and myths and folk tales that live on in Raami's memory. In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner – review 2012-09-29T21:55:01Z

The summer of 2008 was colder than previous years, causing skeptics to crow that warming was a myth. Polar bears just might outlive us all 2012-12-30T16:00:00Z

As victims fight to be believed and face a barrage of abuse for coming forward, powerful men continue to perpetuate the victim-blaming myths and misconceptions that make reporting so hard in the first place. How Vanessa Feltz's bravery exposed our shameful culture of victim-blaming 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

It's an organized crime fable rubbing shoulders with the story of an angel of mercy serial killer with brief ruminations about the myth of race and assimilation strapped to its ankle. In "Fargo," comedian Chris Rock gets dramatic as a mob boss whose weapon of choice is the monologue 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

We explore this three-dimensional sphere of the myth and the story. ‘A Stone in the Mosaic’: A Director Enters the House of Wagner 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

In an oral tradition, it might be even more apparent that history is all those little myths that you recombine to carry yourself forward as a collective. Philip Gourevitch: Memory is a disease 2012-09-26T20:31:00Z

As the classical music season gears up, it’s time to puncture some of the myths about the concert-hall experience. 4 myths about classical music debunked 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

The weird symbolism in Jo Baer’s paintings fuse the grays of her early Minimalist abstractions with visions of Irish myths and monuments. Why the Whitney’s Humanist, Pro-Diversity Biennial Is a Revelation 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

That’s one of the great myths, that there were Israeli Nazi hunters everywhere. The Nazi hunters who wouldn’t give up: “Many war criminals… simply went back and resumed their lives” 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z

But even here, he indulges in the silicon-plated myth that propels, if not entirely underwrites, this process of accelerating surveillance and control of our management society. Julian Assange’s latest wake-up call 2013-04-30T17:42:00Z

But the bigger picture felt authentic, and myths are there to be debunked. The Kennedys and Bodyshock: Dad's Having a Baby 2011-04-07T21:30:01Z

Classical poetry is cited, ancient myths are recounted and romantic affairs are described. Review: Look, Yes, but Listening Is the Key to ‘The Academy of Muses’ 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

The central myth of all these films – that people care – has just been exploded forever. How WikiLeaks killed the conspiracy thriller 2010-12-02T22:30:00Z

The Judgment of Paris tasting of 1976, in which French judges rated California wines higher than French, shattered the myth that fine wine was an Old World monopoly. If you haven’t tasted Bolivian wines, you’re in for some delicious surprises 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Taking its title from a work by Indian artist, Shilpa Gupta, "Where do I end and you begin" has perspectives from five points across the Commonwealth showing the ideas, ideals and myths. Art festival programme launched 2014-03-13T11:52:12Z

Not just white people, but pets are also predicted to be preyed upon on Halloween – or so the myth goes. Halloween myths and urban legends that just won't die 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

It's a myth to say you can have both. Sylvia Syms: 'I'd like a really evil part' 2012-07-19T19:00:04Z

Told in alternating perspectives, fragments, reports, stage-play format, footnotes, reimagined Greek myths and, at one point, a drawing, “Fish in Exile” manipulates form as a means to exploring its themes thoroughly. At home in exile: Vi Khi Nao on her experimental novel 'Fish in Exile' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

Or Why Women Can’t Write,” Johanna Russ, herself an author of dystopian literature, wrote that women writers are often stuck with male myths and male protagonists. The bad mother’s last refuge: Smashing the cult of mommyhood 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

He cites the example of the Oedipus myth. Love as a drug: can romance be medically prescribed? 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z

The umpteenth retelling of the King Arthur myth doesn’t even have the good sense to be bad in a fun way. And your new worst film of 2017 is… “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword” 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

But rather than investigate the meaning of the Leroy myth, “Author” allows Ms. Albert to revise and perpetuate it. Review: ‘Author: The JT Leroy Story’ Renders a Literary Charlatan 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Greek tragedians were “driven by innovation,” she added, and liked writing new versions of old myths. An Immersive Show Taps ‘an Oracle’ for a Spin on Greek Myth 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

But it’s also Greek in that “Thebans” is an operatic adaptation of the Oedipus myth. Opera Review: A Review of Julian Anderson’s ‘Thebans’ for the English National Opera 2014-05-05T12:53:03Z

“You’re dispelling so many myths on what a ‘good mom’ is. Mom shamed for 'babying' 4-year-old son fires back at critics in viral post 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

The myth endures but the extraordinary power of his work has ensured that the music effortlessly transcends the myth. Robert Johnson revelation tells us to put the brakes on the blues 2010-05-27T09:56:00Z

Kadare has commented on his native tongue’s unique affinities with classical Greek, and in the past he used allegory and myth to veil meaning and evade censorship. Ismail Kadare Grapples With the Supernatural 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Ms. Valk’s Johnston, who began the play reading from “Lesbian Nation,” ends with a hopeful passage from the same book about rewriting the ancient myths of womanhood. Review: It’s Norman Mailer vs. Feminists in ‘The Town Hall Affair’ 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

But be careful what you believe: “Everything that ‘everybody knows’ about spiders is wrong,” the Burke Museum’s Rod Crawford writes as he debunks myths at bit.ly/burke-spiders. 5 fun ways to lift your kids’ spirits this week | The Weekly Wonder 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

The movie begins at the beginning, with an animated version of a creation myth that includes references to a great storm and a great flood. '2012: Time for Change': Documentary explores New Age theories 2010-06-03T20:10:00Z

These are not the bestial vandals so beloved by myth makers of the modern. 2010-01-15T05:16:00Z

These famous closing lines from “Diving Into the Wreck” are Rich’s poetic call for a new set of myths; by the ’70s, she was avidly writing it. Two New Volumes by Adrienne Rich, Game-Changing Feminist, Poet and Essayist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

The last few chapters debunk popular myths about the Electoral College and show how a national popular vote might work. Why We Should Abolish the Electoral College 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

Even so, while Mr. Moshé’s ambitions can be frustratingly modest, he does know that — however fraudulent the genre’s myths — the image of a man riding a horse into the sunset is in our cinematic DNA. Review: The Sidekick as Hero in ‘The Ballad of Lefty Brown’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

The image of the conductor as dictator is as much a marketing myth as a musical one, and it's a fiction, at least as it applies to today's conductor-orchestra relationships. Mystery of the maestros: what are conductors for? 2012-06-01T21:55:13Z

Surely this loss affected his retelling of the myth. Recordings: A New Recording of Philip Glass?s Opera ?Orph?e? 2010-08-01T02:00:00Z

In Power Through Partnership: How Women Lead Better Together, Polk and Chotas investigate the lack of female power duos, and demolish many of the myths that keep women from going into business together. 6 Reasons Professional Partnerships Are Powerful for Women 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

In an email, Mr. Hernandez wrote that his work was a reflection of his personal history, “full of myths, sorcerers and healers, of nahuales or spirits, open fires and herbs.” New Southern California Exhibitions Reveal Riches of Art and Tradition 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

We instinctively remember the Dre of bulletproof myth, but there was a time when doors slammed in his face. Perspective | 25 years later, Dr. Dre’s ‘The Chronic’ remains rap’s world-building masterpiece 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

It has the pared-back quality of myth, the terse economy of tragedy. To appreciate the ‘Masterworks’ of Paul Thomas Anderson, here are 5 essential movies of his to watch 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

None more so than 1958's White Wilderness, in which captive lemmings were herded off a cliff in order to support the myth that the creatures killed themselves en masse. Are animals in Hollywood films too human? 2013-04-25T18:30:01Z

From another, it is a locus of myth and mystery, a site of alchemical transformation from which all humanity springs. The Womb Is a Miracle, and a Mystery 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

A fantasy about princes and princesses and perfect doubles, the story’s roots are as firmly planted in Hindu myth and epic as in Bollywood romance. Review: ‘Prem Ratan Dhan Payo,’ a Bollywood Tale of a Prince-and-Plebe Double 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

In the myth, the clever boy captured the sword of Mars, god of war, to use in cutting down the human hero’s mighty weapon into a bow that could propel arrows of passionate ardor. Edmé Bouchardon's extraordinary drawings changed the way sculpture looked 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

Somewhere along the way, though, the man appears to have been eaten by the myth. Jean-Luc Godard: 'Film is over. What to do?' 2011-07-12T20:30:03Z

It is not possible to find another such weak, stretchy example of a supposed myth. Gene Weingarten: Mythunderstood

The romanticism of Paterson’s artistic isolation, of the solitary pursuit of art by a seeming separate inspiration, is an intoxicating myth. Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson” and the Myth of the Solitary Artist 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Comedic drama and satire are ways to explode myths and blindness in our current world and to explore possible worlds and ways of relating. Review: In ‘ms. estrada,’ Campus Feminists Say No to Sex, Yes to Hip-Hop 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

“It might be just a legend,” Saviano writes, “but I’ve always believed that only a legend of this sort has the necessary symbolic force to give birth to an actual foundation myth.” ‘ZeroZeroZero,’ by Roberto Saviano 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

Prevailing myths: It’s not all Ichabod Crane and Sleepy Hollow, although, yes, Washington Irving’s stories still resonate, from Tarrytown north to the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, between mountains and river, Catskills and Hudson. Discover what drew artists, writers and presidents to New York’s Hudson Valley 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

“They will not think it such a myth when there are no fish to eat, when there is no more fowl,” she said. Patti Smith, in Surprise Appearance at MoMA, Says What’s on Her Mind 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

To make things worse, our culture is awash with myths that prevent dogs being properly understood – in particular, the enduring idea that they harbour a powerful desire to dominate their family pack. In Defence of Dogs by John Bradshaw ? review 2011-07-08T21:56:01Z

The city’s founding father Romulus, according to myth, was the son of Mars, the god of war; he’d been suckled by a she-wolf and killed his brother, Remus. Review: ‘Dynasty,’ Tom Holland’s Chronicle of the First Five Emperors Who Ruled Ancient Rome 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

If your first instinct is to think the left hand is associated with evil, you aren't wrong; there are myths about the left hand and lefties being sinister across many, many cultures. 20 common American behaviors that are considered rude elsewhere around the world 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

In my 40 years advising people about wine in restaurants and wine shops I have helped to debunk many of these myths. Five Common Wine Myths, Debunked 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

I thought it was a big myth but when you speak on the phone, there's a person there. Olly Murs: 'The fastest I've ever driven naked is zero miles per hour' 2012-12-19T12:25:00Z

“We all know better now,” said Steele, who contemptuously accused the defense of the “exploitation of myths.” Jurors in sexual-assault trial of Bill Cosby begin deliberations 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

Faust, which has its world premiere at the Venice film festival on Thursday, is loosely based on German writer Goethe's take on the myth about a man who sells his soul to the devil. Sokurov completes power series with "Faust" film 2011-09-08T15:03:27Z

Her intent, she said, was to tackle the questions “how to become oneself in spite of the myth elaborated through education and history” as well as “how do we erase the sequels of colonialism?” Not-the-Nobel Prize in Literature Is Announced 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

“Just as Herzl looked to ‘Tannhäuser’ to fortify his Zionist vision, Du Bois took Wagnerian myth as a model for a heroic new African-American spirit.” From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

The story may be a myth, but the drink is the real deal. How to enjoy your own holiday party: Set up a DIY champagne cocktail bar 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

It is a myth that pleases the powerful. 'Being a perfect girl can kill you' – extract from Unspeakable Things by Laurie Penny 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

“There is this myth about the visit that we made, my colleagues and I with El Chapo, that it was — as the Attorney General of Mexico is quoted — ‘essential’ to his capture,” Penn told Rose. Sean Penn Has a 'Terrible Regret' About His 'El Chapo' Article 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

As Campbell saw it, the myths and legends of the world were all imperfect variations on this one, pure story structure. The Hero’s Journey: The idea you never knew had shaped “Star Wars” 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z

But this dance is rather too stillborn to conjure much of a creation myth. Dance Review | Lar Lubovitch: Tender Mercies in Deadly Combats 2010-03-04T21:59:00Z

And as for linking “this store of wisdom and our modern life,” she lead me step by step through parallels between the kidnapping of Patty Hearst and the myth of Persephone. ‘Mary Poppins’ creator P.L. Travers is even more fascinating than her fiction 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

What are some of your favorite myths and stories about Stan Lee? Stan Lee has departed our universe, having “surpassed his wildest dreams” 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

"New music — there's a lot of myth around it," Tai says. Seattle Modern Orchestra gives you a warm welcome to contemporary classical music 2011-01-25T00:19:17Z

The original movie, directed by Marcel Camus, updated the ancient myth of Orpheus and Eurydice by setting it in the city of Rio de Janeiro during Carnival. 'Black Orpheus' to become a Broadway musical 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

It also perpetuates the myth, she says, that “men are rock hard and women are ready for sex all the time”. Is porn making young men impotent? 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

She thought that beyond an exhibit of images and artifacts, the AHC should incorporate overlooked voices deconstructing the myths baked into the Cyclorama. Atlanta’s Cyclorama had the black role in a Civil War battle all wrong. She set about to fix that. 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

Joanna Trollope, who chaired the judging panel, described Miller's retelling of the ancient Greek myth as "inventive, passionate, uplifting and different" at the awards ceremony in London's Royal Festival Hall. Madeline Miller wins Orange Prize for Fiction 2012-05-30T20:08:16Z

It’s a very strange feeling to have been with a myth.' Jane Birkin: My family values 2013-01-18T17:45:01Z

The narrative through-line of Republican ideology is the myth that America was a country built by white men but is now a nation where white men are deeply suffering. "Rich Men" versus the rest of us: A country hit embodies the GOP's narrative 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z

The past several years have eroded some of the myths of male abuse, thanks to overwhelming — and worldwide — evidence of sexual misconduct within the Catholic church. Rep. Jim Jordan’s “locker room talk” denial: Waving off sex abuse complaints shows limits o... 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

As one music critic wrote of her work, it "systematically dismantles the myth of a homogenous Appalachia." Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp can teach Jason Aldean a thing or two about small towns 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z

But Hobsbawm excelled at revealing the power of myths, symbols and rituals, the intricacies of popular culture. Eric Hobsbawm changed how we think about culture 2012-10-02T14:29:06Z

Of course, women and people of color appear in folklore, myths and legends across cultures, but they are less often depicted as heroic protagonists in the prominent, globally renown tales. How Three Artists Are Exploring Mythology and Race 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Nina Subin A debut novelist's retelling of one of the most enduring Greek myths, the story of Achilles and the battle for Troy, is the surprise winner of the Orange prize for . Orange prize for fiction 2012 goes to Madeline Miller 2012-05-30T18:12:31Z

“I was relieved to discover the reality is very different to the myth,” Jackson said. Peter Jackson details new Beatles film based on unreleased "Let It Be" footage 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

But so many stories surround James’s life and work that part of his mission was trying to “pin down all the myths” and understand the mystique of his genius. Technology Brings the Designs of Charles James to Life 2014-04-30T22:11:48Z

“In every culture there’s a myth about the stars and stories there,” he added. Your Next Trip? It’s Written in the Stars 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

Tobias Wolff has written that in Vietnam he saw something “that wasn’t allowed for in the national myth”—meaning the American national myth—“our capacity for collective despair.” Phil Klay on His Iraq War Book 'Redeployment' 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

But if you’re not, then there’s no point in just continuing the myth.” Jude Law Comes Out as the Young Dumbledore 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Nearly all cultures have flood myths and legends. Water, water, everywhere 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Similar to the work of Dash Snow, who was among his downtown contemporaries, part of Powers’s art is weaving a myth around himself and his friends. Street Art and Subversion from Stephen (Espo) Powers 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

In the classical myth, the couple falls in love after Jupiter sentences Hercules to become a slave to Omphale, the queen of Lydia, as punishment for a crime. Damaged by an Explosion, the Canvas Emerged a Gentileschi 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z

This popular myth, embraced in video games and comic books, is actually a plausible conclusion when one considers a thicket of facts that weave around it. Did Nazis really try to make zombies? The real history behind one of our weirdest WWII obsessions 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

Another exciting challenge was that the film script included many English words that just don't exist in Babylonian — like "to thank," "to help," "to feel," "to vibrate," "legend" and "myth." "Eternals" – Marvel consulted me to help superheroes chit chat in Babylonian 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

To be sure, modern producers deserve a degree of leeway in recreating a work based on an age-old myth, especially one as familiar to opera goers as the Orpheus legend. In Brussels, Taking ‘Orphée et Eurydice’ to Another Realm 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

When Barack Obama addressed the campaign in October, he said: We've got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage; that it's just some inevitable part of growing up. Bully beatdown videos: When revenge isn't so sweet 2011-03-31T19:15:00Z

Its producers are promising a programme with darker story lines as they bring the myths and legends of ancient Greece to life. Behind the scenes of 'darker' Atlantis 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

“Norse Mythology” is something a bit different for Gaiman: It's his rendering of 15 stories from what little remains of the pre-Christian Scandinavian myths that were recorded in and around the 13th century. Neil Gaiman wields Thor's hammer in 'Norse Mythology' 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Ellis’s friendship with Mud teaches him about the difference between myth and reality and the human flaws in our heroes. Boyhood, Moonlight and beyond: the best coming-of-age movies 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

The part of her life that fits least with the sad-sack saint myth is the most obvious one: her voice. Billie Holiday's Story Was Even More Complicated Than You Think 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

“Girls” is an outright rejection of the romantic West of Puccini, of the hubris of Manifest Destiny, of all the rosy myths you’ve heard about the Golden State. Review: John Adams’s Newest Opera Returns to the Gold Mines 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

Mirroring, shininess and reflectivity in particular will continue to occupy his mind and his art, and to him they have cultural connotations that are the opposite of the ones from the myth of Narcissus. Loving Art to the Moon and Back 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

The myths that make life bearable are all too fragile. Letters to Juliet is corny as Kansas. Great! 2010-06-14T09:45:00Z

What emerges is suitable for all ages, and is a drama of family and dynastic clashes and unifications, similar to the goings-on in Shakespeare's plays, the Old Testament and Greek myths. 'Ramayana' at ACT: vivid dramatization of the Hindu epic 2012-10-20T01:32:07Z

As for his Broadway myth, as I've gotten older I've come to assume he made most of it up in stories for the family, and in particular his gullible nephew, my father. Looking for Uncle Allan: A queer odyssey 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z

Even an extended European vacation would seem desultory without an acquaintance with the myths and legends that animate its culture. In Hawaii, local legends enrich, inform the visitor experience 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

The movies have always been susceptible to myths — the ones they create, and the ones created around their making. Perspective | The ‘Rust’ scene that Alec Baldwin was rehearsing strikes a familiar and played-out chord 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

Some versions of the myth allow for voluntary metamorphosis, but that doesn't present the same dilemma of conscience. ArtsBeat: Werewolves, Vampires and Shrinks, Oh My: Glen Duncan Talks About 'Talulla Rising' 2012-06-27T14:52:44Z

The Black and White Ball, at least the myth of it, survives them both. We’re still talking about Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball 50 years later. Here’s why. 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

It's hard to say exactly where myths end and folk tales and religions begin. Neil Gaiman's top 10 mythical characters 2013-06-14T08:00:00Z

A film about the journeys we must take on our own before we can find fulfillment in others, “Someone, Somewhere” is a deconstruction of rom-com myths that nevertheless retains faith in fate and magic. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Legends and myths abound surrounding werewolves, each one a variant on the same universal theme and fascinating to read about; the French Beast of Gevaudan, the native American skin-walkers; the Russian Wawkalak. Fangtastic reads: werewolf books 2011-07-19T10:38:23Z

The idea was first documented around 1500 BCE in Sanskrit scriptures, and in myths from Australia, China and Greece — just to name a few. Poached or painted: A closer look at how eggs became a complex motif in countless works of art 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

Kneehigh, whose art is populist and highly personable, achieves here the theatrical equivalent of a graphic novel — a colorful and richly inventive stage fable where myth and music seductively entwine. Kneehigh's 'Tristan & Yseult' an alluring blend of myth, music 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

But if the book's success established Malcolm's legacy, it also created a myth that deterred a more stringent analysis of his life and work. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable ? review 2011-04-10T05:00:01Z

Over her past five superb albums, she has written delicate and stormy parables about romance, wanderlust, art and self-realization, invoking myth and archetype as much as confessionalism. Review: Laura Marling’s ‘Semper Femina’ Seeks the Cryptic in the Plainspoken 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

America is a country, an idea, a “dream” and a myth — functioning simultaneously as a society and a set of faith positions, complete with stories of miracles, heroes and devils. “Yellowstone,” an American purgatory: No heroes in Kevin Costner’s new Western series 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z

That’s the black part: overcoming the institutional myth that there’s less — or nothing — to love. Defining, and Proclaiming, a New Black Power 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

By the time of Get Carter, in 1971, the police have practically vanished as agents of moral retribution, but it was Sidney Lumet's 1972 masterpiece The Offence that really nailed the Blue Lamp myth. Stop or we'll shoot: British cinema's portrayal of the police 2011-08-11T21:10:00Z

And as with Patrick, “it’s the undoing of the myth of the father that brings Hamlet into a more loving relationship” with the world. Benedict Cumberbatch Just Crossed the Last Role Off His Bucket List 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Inspired by British history and myth, including the Bayeux tapestry and Robin Hood, they wear chainmail or white costumes with billowing sleeves, striking balletic fighting poses. Artist of the week 205: Francis Upritchard 2012-08-30T11:37:22Z

"There's a myth that the Troubles were this unchanging monolith, that the Troubles in 1969 were the same as the Troubles in 1994," he says. Youth culture movies: how soon is too soon? 2011-08-18T21:00:01Z

And to dispel this myth that the onus should fall solely on women to fight this issue when we are not the sources of it. Author Kylie Cheung: As the "perpetrators of sexual violence," men need to join the feminist fight 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Aucoin’s work, “The Orphic Moment,” probes the psychology of the crucial turning point from the myth of Orpheus in an anguished 16-minute dramatic scene. Review: ‘Orphic Moments,’ With Feast, at National Sawdust 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

The true origin story of Vader's moniker is not as cool as the myth. From "dada" to Darth Vader – why the way we name fathers reminds us we spring from the same well 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z

The myth that abortion is a dangerous procedure proliferates in anti-choice circles, and is propagated by the same. The 7 biggest myths about abortion 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

The first Thanksgiving story, and the years surrounding it weren't a myth or a story of genocide. Feeling Conflicted on Thanksgiving 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

Many disaster experts think such myths are propagated largely by Hollywood. Finding peace in post-disaster Haiti 2013-05-26T14:00:00Z

It certainly returns us to the great enigma of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth: by looking back at her in the underworld, he loses her. Cannes 2012: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet ? review 2012-05-21T11:24:05Z

An exhibition displaying everything in the catalog would be a once-in-a-lifetime event and a richly illuminating meditation on the classic Arcadian myth of pastoral bliss and what it means for the modern world. Art Review: ‘Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2012-07-01T22:11:53Z

“In creating the myth, how do you live up to it?” Sundance 2015: Johnny Knoxville says Evel Knievel helped create him 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

As Toni Morrison said, “The one thing you say about a myth is that there’s some truth in there, no matter how bizarre they may seem.” Revisiting the Legend of Flying Africans 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Another myth tells us only American wines are appropriate. Four Thanksgiving wine strategies — and five great bottles for your table 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

This is the subject of all romantic stories—the enchantment of the world is killed, and the characters of all the myths and legends have to stay somewhere. "Undine" is an exquisite, romantic reimagining of an underwater myth using a phallic CGI catfish 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

So let’s lose these three hotel sleep myths: ‘Like sleeping on a bed of nails’: What to do when hotel-mattress hype doesn’t match reality 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

The film highlights the humanity of those with disabilities while dispelling myths, showing in one instance how deaf people experience music. ‘CODA’ has loud message even when there’s silence 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

His new exhibition, "Ten Feet Tall," investigates "myth, humor, tragedy and their relationship to place." 17 top entertainment picks for the week of Jan. 15 2012-01-11T22:01:09Z

You deserve — through whatever combination of insinuation or hypotheticals or myths — to have the space to keep believing it, without us making that harder. Everybody Knows What Fox News Is Now 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

But the only simple truth here is that it's time to bust the "calories in, calories out" myth as the only way to lose weight. It’s time to bust the ‘calories in, calories out’ weight-loss myth 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

But the myth is more impressive than the reality. False consciousness 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

It took a real insight and intellect and understanding of history–that the story that lasts is the best myth. 5 Questions With Natalie Portman 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

One of the foundational Dilla myths is how he arrived at his signature sound, in which the rhythm can feel off, different or just wrong. J Dilla Was a Revered Rap Producer. A New Book Deepens His Legacy. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

U.S. leads the world in health-related life expectancy As I wrote last fall, it’s a myth that the American health-care system lags other countries on the measure of life expectancy. Families USA's Bogus Claim That Overturning Obamacare Will Kill People 2012-06-22T12:50:03Z

The name of the island is true to myth, which suggests that someone at DC Comics has been knuckling down to Herodotus and the Greek tragedians. Top Ten Things About Wonder Woman 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

Doesn’t upstate New York have its own myth for recording albums? Eleanor Friedberger on leaving Brooklyn, approaching 40 and why she’d be happy to sell out: “I don’t think that attitude really exists anymore” 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

Of course, the myth of Springsteen began with a man worrying that he was too old for rock'n'roll. Why does Bruce Springsteen make middle-aged men behave like teenagers at their first pop show? 2012-06-21T09:34:56Z

This is the ancient myth of Hercules — the plot of all plots — re-engineered into a modern-day wonder. A thriller with heart: Hannah Tinti’s ‘The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley’ 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Historical accounts of revolutionary icons are often plagued by hero myths that exalt individuals at the expense of the community that formed them. ‘Why Is We Americans?’ Review: A Family Synonymous With Newark 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

That is a big myth fabricated by American TV shows. Matt Haig: Why I love my library 2013-02-08T09:00:00Z

Basically, it’s the persistent myth that the person, the writer, can actually be separated from the work. My literary nemesis 2012-07-26T18:57:00Z

Over his long career, he increasingly combined realism with surrealism in his plays, introducing elements of myth and dream. Iakovos Kambanellis obituary 2011-04-04T17:23:29Z

In addition to these elegiac poems, and some candid and moving lyrics, Porter's work from the 1970s became more meditative, packed with allusions to myth, philosophy, art and music. Peter Porter obituary 2010-04-23T16:54:00Z

But otherwise it's a slightly plodding account of Chinese myth and legend. Film review: True Legend 2010-09-23T21:26:00Z

The artworks produced by the women prisoners in our project broke down both these myths. Prison food: what we learned from organizing food-themed art workshops for women prisoners 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

“Black Orpheus” is the 1959 film by Marcel Camus, recreating the Orpheus and Eurydice myth in the Rio de Janeiro Carnival. Film ‘Black Orpheus’ to be adapted for Broadway 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

History classes haven't done a great job of ridding popular presidential myths from the American consciousness. From George Washington's teeth to Taft's bathtub drama: 6 presidential myths, debunked 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z

Based loosely on a Greek myth, the 1998 verse novel “Autobiography of Red” is one of her best-known books. Asturias award honors Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

It was hatched at the Orchard Project, a theater retreat in the Catskills where company members began to build the Stella Burden myth and formulate the fictional Approach. Many Methods to Collaborative Madness 2011-02-23T00:23:36Z

But dead girls have long populated folktales about sleeping beauties and myths of goddesses traversing the underworld. Why "The Little Mermaid" and "Barbie" made 2023 the dead girl summer 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z

“Our play explores the myths of the white savior and of romanticized American history,” Kidwell says. A powerful symbol of resistance, the Underground Railroad inspires a wave of books, plays, TV and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

If Din is all about following the rules and checking things off lists, Bo-Katan believes that ridding her people of all the old Mandalorian myths is the only way to move into the future. ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3 Premiere Recap: Together Again 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

The myth of the BFF can be difficult to live up to. The myth of the BFF and the end of female friendships 2013-05-29T07:08:00Z

New York Times' columnist Paul Krugman called its findings on wealth dating back to the 18th Century a game-changer that demolishes the myth that "great wealth is earned and deserved". Book Talk: Game-changer or Marx revisited? A new tale of capital 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

Here are some of those myths, some of which influenced Rodger, and why they are so very, very wrong. 4 myths about sex and women that prop up the new misogyny 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

One such myth, although it’s rarely regarded as such, is that Shakespeare was the most famous playwright of his day. The creation of William Shakespeare: How the Bard really became a legend 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

With that in mind, here are three outdated myths about booking direct. The Getaway: 3 Myths About Booking Travel From the Source 2012-09-26T16:02:02Z

Model minority is a comforting myth, but it is implicated in a long history of harmful inequality and hierarchy, within the United States and in India. ‘Beyond Bollywood’ exhibit at MOHAI looks at the contributions of Indian Americans 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

Midas becomes the inventor of money, “a necessary myth for our time”: After the loss of his friend, Dionysos, he melts down his family’s treasures into coinage, and in so doing, erases history and memory. Classical Myths Filtered Through a Modern Prism 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

But any savvy consumer of journalism knows that objectivity is a myth. Documentaries like ‘Casting JonBenet’ mix fact and fiction. That just makes them more honest. 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

The revelations are utterly at odds with Obama's long-held myth of his father's grandeur, a myth propagated by his well-meaning mother. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

“I would like... to break with the myth built over 60 years that to do something independent, separate from the state, is the devil, or counterrevolution,” said Otero Alcantara. Cuban artists plan to stage alternative Havana biennial 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

My favourite, The Nature of Monsters, encompassed more madness, as well as contemporary science and myth. Beautiful Lies by Clare Clark - review 2012-06-08T21:55:09Z

It was in Victorian times that childhood was given all these myths and legends and fairy tales, as if it was a child’s world, not an adult’s world. Donovan to Enter Songwriters Hall of Fame 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

There’s a common myth that Burning Man works on a bartering system. The crazy world of Burning Man – festival survival guide 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Tate Good and evil, reason and madness are powerfully contrasted in this primal vision of Greek myth. Tate Britain's killer rehang could make it an essential space – the week in art 2013-05-10T16:56:47Z

The creation of Exile on Main St, like so many early chapters in the Rolling Stones story, is shrouded in myth and blurred by conflicting anecdotal evidence. Exile on Main St 2010-04-24T23:05:00Z

I hate the myth of the cool dad. Don’t believe that new Cheerios commercial: Why I hate the myth of the “cool dad” 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

More recently, 2007's Alice in Sunderland explored the links between the North East city and author Lewis Carroll, mixing myth and history along the way. Why academics are taking comic books seriously 2013-10-18T05:22:42Z

Among the myths are claims that Mormons are not Christians, he said. Book of Mormon not a problem for the Latter-Day Saints 2013-04-07T16:54:05Z

Even though much of this book is basic knowledge and will probably be the same in 100 years, we are constantly learning new things that dispel old myths and contradict accepted knowledge.” | Coffee With Tim Wendelboe 2010-10-14T20:00:00Z

In this, Bee is not just challenging the male gaze but rejecting the myth of the writers room meritocracy that for so long privileged the few. How did Sam Bee’s “Full Frontal” find its brilliant voice? By amplifying the unheard 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

Handel liked the myth of Acis and Galatea so much that he set it to music twice, and did plenty of tinkering with both versions. Music Review: Finding Many Ways to View One Myth 2011-04-05T20:52:21Z

And then there's the life, which is both epic and bizarre, as if he were a creature of myth or fable rather than of a provincial German city. Kurt Schwitters: the modernist master in exile 2013-01-06T00:06:24Z

“Somewhere I had heard about the myth of ‘King Kong’ the musical, and it just resonated,” Mr. Abraham said in an interview at his west London home. Reviving a South African Musical That Once Promised So Much 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

It’s often unsophisticated, with a dated perspective on the myth of the “eternal feminine” and an “it was all a dream” twist. How a Forgotten Opera Made a Big Comeback 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

But yes, one myth is that Asians are Asians when it comes to politics, but each ethnic group is different, politically speaking. Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun 2012-05-19T13:00:00Z

Here’s the ancient Pygmalion myth: Boy meets rock. Review: A Playful ‘Pygmalion’ From Bedlam? Bloody Likely 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

“We need a new myth, a new thing that defines us.” Looking to the cultural world to solve Europe’s problems 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

“Candyman” also explores the prevalence and preservation of myths and legends. Nia DaCosta on ‘Candyman’ and the Power of Terrifying Legends 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

As in our originary myths, we are still choosing the names of the beasts around us and only slowly discovering what these names signify. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z

She and the other hosts are like mortals in Greek myth, subject to the whims of supernatural beings who watch them from above and visit their plane for cruel amusement. Review: ‘Westworld’ Is a Provocative but Flawed Sci-Fi Shoot-’Em-Up 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Clothes are arranged not by designer, as one might expect, but by that pre-algorithm myth: instinct. The Webster Takes New York 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Flight, like disappearance, is a significant theme, and the poem is haunted by the myth of Icarus – not by accident one of modern poetry's favourite parables. Poem of the week: 'Time has disappeared/Lo temps s'es perdut' by Aurélia Lassaque 2013-02-11T11:28:12Z

Much early myth and literature — Aeschylus’s “Eumenides” is a good example — dramatizes the displacement of matriarchal religions by new belief systems privileging male deities. Review | ‘Women Who Fly’: a tale of female emancipation through the ages 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

Except this itself is a myth about cave art: in the caves of southern France you see as many dots, geometric patterns and enigmatic beings as "realistic" paintings. Happisburgh tools: masterpieces with a cutting edge 2010-07-09T15:51:00Z

“The myth of the cowboy,” he wrote there, “grew purer every year because there were so few actual cowboys left to contradict it.” Thomas McGuane, winner of the upcoming Kirsch Award, on his path as a writer 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

For Zachary Mason, a computer scientist as well as the author of three works of fiction, ancient myth is an opportunity to explore the emptiness of life and the infinite variety of narrative. Classical Myths Filtered Through a Modern Prism 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

In popular myth, Oscar Wilde was always heading toward destruction, and there was nothing much he could do about it. Why David Hare Loves Oscar Wilde 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

At night, my youngest read a series based on the Norse myths, but set in the Black Hills of South Dakota. On a Family Road Trip Through Germany: Fairy Tales, Castles and Cuckoo Clocks 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

To keep sales up he had to keep the myth alive, which meant staying put. Art Review: The Self-Invented Artist 2011-02-24T22:33:10Z

One bronze sculpture reimagines the classical myth of Leda and the Swan, with a saxophone replacing the bird, so the female figure appears to be making music rather than being violated. Making Intergalactic and Intergenerational Art 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z

In precise formation they coalesce into a river of dance inspired by Chinese history, legend, myth and literature. Falun Gong, banned in China, finds a loud protest voice in the U.S. through Shen Yun dance troupe 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

In addition to talks, the festival will explore the traditional Sami culture of Lapland, and their myths and legends concerning the Northern Lights, at a remote village. Tour and Festival News: Northern Lights and Miami Yoga 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

The search for meaning and a way to cope gave rise to allegories, myths, science and religion. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' an apocalyptic tale as old as man's existence 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

But perhaps the most outsized aspect of Brando, who died in 2004 aged 80, was the myths that swirled around him. Marlon on Marlon… the Brando tapes 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

We live in myth and symbol all the time.” Her Mother Disappeared 16 Years Ago. In This Novel, the Hunt Continues. 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

They quickly become fascinated by Greek myths and work together to produce a literary magazine full of allegory, truth and creativity. The cultured classes | Lynsey Hanley 2010-03-19T20:30:00Z

Mr. Jones, who rides alongside Ms. Swank as a whiskery ruffian known as Briggs, uses western iconography to dismantle a familiar set of romantic myths. ‘The Homesman’ Stars Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

When the Dau project began, the myth of the wild, inspired, genius-level male artist was still intact; 15 years later it emerges in a changed landscape. Inside Dau, the 'Stalinist Truman Show': 'I had absolute freedom – until the KGB grabbed me' 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

Then there is the way it presents the Santa myth. “Miracle on 34th Street”: Best Christmas movie ever? 2012-12-24T23:00:00Z

“It helps you define your visions, goals and objectives,” he said, and focusing on one task at a time is a smart idea, because “multitasking is a myth.” Set a tomato timer? Eat a frog? Be like Ike? Comparing 5 common productivity systems. 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z

Tibetan Buddhism and the myths were intertwined threads that were in turn woven into the landscape. Explorer: Myths and Mountains in Nepal 2012-10-28T06:23:48Z

In a series of documentary interviews interspersed throughout the film, locals relate the myth of the women who have water “inside them,” who disappear whenever a flood arrives. ‘El Agua’ Review: After the Flood, the Legends 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

After so many lies, the myth of the truthful photograph was dead by the 1960s. The fake photographs that predate Photoshop 2012-08-29T08:44:53Z

For Aucoin, bringing “Eurydice” back to life at such grand scale is an effort not just to reimagine the myth, but also the ways that art and grief connect. Perspective | For the new opera ‘Eurydice,’ a challenge of mythic scale: Retelling the Orpheus myth without looking back 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

“The big myth in German cinema is that you have to wear a Nazi uniform to talk about the past, and it’s more complicated,” said Ms. Nicodemus, the Die Zeit film critic. How ‘Toni Erdmann’ Became an Unexpected Comedy 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

It buries forever the myth of British reserve. What's typically British now? Tears, tents and no spiders 2012-06-01T19:30:01Z

I’ve found that three social myths seem to undergird their assumptions. Navigating the tricky waters of being a stepdad 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

“Because it’s a myth, it gives us a lot of leeway,” Baum says. Perspective | People said her great-great-aunts posed as white and robbed banks. So she wrote a musical about them. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

Beautiful, haunting little tales like “The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury” and “The Thing About Cassandra” evoke our wonder at the myths and imaginations of our childhoods. Best science fiction and fantasy for February 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

Another concept that’s difficult for many white folks, and others, is the myth of meritocracy. Professor targeted by right for teaching course on “white racism”: “These folks are delusio... 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The consensus among historians is that these Nazi lampshades may well be a myth, as are the bars of soap Nazis allegedly rendered from Jewish corpses. Books of The Times: A Grotesque Artifact Starts a Journey From Garage Sale to Buchenwald 2010-09-30T22:21:00Z

Instead, he's bent on illuminating the power of ancient myth: Greek, Irish, Japanese, you name it ... much of it as brutal as it is seductive. Underwater grotto meets aerial acrobatics in the Cabiri's 'Devil in the Deep Blue Sea' 2010-10-27T20:42:00Z

But no — I mean it’s there, but his “Heart of Darkness” is part of a kind of colonial myth. A backstage, meditative adventure with 'The Encounter's' Simon McBurney 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

But these journalistic myths seem to matter, as Olbermann’s evocation of “Network” attests. “The Newsroom”: Cliched as hell 2012-06-21T00:00:00Z

But if Parks’ statue is a victory it’s rendered a bit less sweet by the myths told about her. Rosa Parks’ activism wasn’t limited to a Montgomery bus 2013-03-15T16:57:00Z

Often incorporating female protagonists, she wrote erotic Gothic chillers for adults and modern myths for children, and she reinterpreted fairy tales with even more frightful twists. Tanith Lee, Fantasy and Horror Novelist, Dies at 67 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

Here the consecrated ground is a theater, a place meant to sustain us with myths and legends about ourselves. "Watchmen" finale: One last reveal explains all those eggs and the crushing weight of legacy 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

To start, it's important to acknowledge a few myths around protein requirements. "The key to a healthy, animal-free diet," according to a nutrition expert 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

His range of reference, both to the works of other artists, including Titian and Michelangelo, and to classical myth, is also astonishing. Review | Tintoretto was brilliant and ambitious. This new exhibition shows he was also sublimely weird. 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

The real women who fought them called themselves Amazons, figures from myth, because, not knowing much about the history of women, they had to imagine ancestors. Wonder Woman’s Unwinnable War 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

When so many movies make myths, "Happy Valley" witnesses the end of one and the yawning vacuum left in its wake. From Prop. 8 to Joe Paterno, six contenders for feature documentary 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

A lot of my work has been to try and break down these myths and try to look at more of the complexity without this criminal framing. Addiction is a learning disorder: Why the war on drugs is useless, AA undermines treatment, and addiction studies can learn a lot from autism 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

White, meanwhile, said he hadn’t thought about his own death much, but as always, he was mindful of his myth. Jack White Is the Coolest, Weirdest, Savviest Rock Star of Our Time 2012-04-07T00:27:22Z

The forces of imagination and the Apollonian dream are saved only by myth from indiscriminate rambling. Ragnar?k: the doom of the gods 2011-08-05T21:55:10Z

Unfortunately, despite the hype, marketing and celebrity testimonials, ramping up your metabolism is mostly a myth. Can you really change your metabolism? 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

If Discovery gets one thing right, it’s that they’re fascinating — but apparently they’re just not as fascinating as the many myths and misconceptions that the network promotes. Scientists are bracing themselves for the sensationalist bullsh*t that is Shark Week 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

And by the 1940s, this myth was living in New York. Art Review: ‘Dancing Around the Bride,’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2012-12-06T23:01:56Z

The writer of "World on Fire" called it your "foundation myth." "All Creatures Great and Small" star on animals, slow-burn romance & what makes a Scottish Christmas 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

Think, for instance, of the Abomination and Red Skull, who resemble ogres found in stories like the Norse myth "Beowulf" or the Chinese folk tale "Journey to the West." "WandaVision" echoes myths of Isis, Orpheus and Kisa Gotami to explain how grief and love persevere 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z

With the country on the brink of civil war, we analyse the man and the myth that is Muammar Gaddafi, ruling through an extraordinary mix of fear and farce. The week in review podcast: Gaddafi, antisemitism and Jamie's Dream School 2011-03-04T16:43:39Z

Cimino drew on a strain of myth that was the stock-in-trade of classic movies and transfigured it with an aesthetic that was decades ahead of its time. Postscript: Michael Cimino, 1939–2016 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

At the center of the exhibit is a colorful 30-foot-long dragon created by Qiao and seven dragon eggs with intricate designs that tell myths and stories from Norwegian history by Vejle. What to look for in Seattle’s National Nordic Museum’s stunning exhibit of intricate papercutting art 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

“We take Gotham from the corrupt! The rich! The oppressors of generations who have kept you down with myths of opportunity, and we give it back to you … the people.” What if superheroes aren’t really the good guys? 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

And yet, that is partly a hip-hop myth deployed by gatekeepers. Cardi B Is a New Rap Celebrity Loyal to Rap’s Old Rules on ‘Invasion of Privacy’ 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

Paths zigzag to elude evil spirits, which, according to myth, travel only in straight lines. Like it was ‘made in heaven’: a secret garden in the suburbs offers an Asian-style landscape

There is thus no shortage of potential cowboy myths in the western world. The myth of the cowboy 2013-03-20T18:00:01Z

He was trying to get beyond the lone-genius myth but also past the now-trendy notion that creativity comes primarily from sprawling networks. Joshua Wolf Shenk argues for the dynamism of duos in 'Powers of Two' 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

The second episode, however spotlights the very mixed feelings of the female breadwinner, the perilous tensions between marriage, family and personal identity as well as the myth of the "good divorce." Review: 'Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce' marries Bravo to good TV 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

Though the story that the queen sent only five pounds to the Irish during the famine turned out to be a myth, certainly Victoria was not concerned enough about the million who died. Queen! Bow Down to Tattoo-Flashing Octogenarian Dame Dench 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Clothes cover the body while the band get down to the more essential business of perpetuating the myth that rock'n'roll is anything more than ephemeral fun and, sometimes, pretty good entertainment. Hüsker Dü: "Hardcore is bands with three initials" – a classic interview 2013-05-15T13:53:36Z

As with all foundational myths, however, there remained a missing piece: the villain. The changing face of “America’s dog” — and what it says about us 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

He was “born into the Jim Crow era”, says Richardson, a sentence which Jackson finishes “… and grew up listening to the myth of it being gone”. Samuel L Jackson: 'A fullness comes upon me every time I land in Africa' 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

Whenever characters discuss the hollow, unachievable nature of the cultural myth falsely informing our sense of exceptionalism, a theme driving Mark Millar's 2013 comic book series, the show hints at evolving into something more profound. Netflix's self-serious "Jupiter's Legacy" is the superhero TV version of a Designer Imposter stinker 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

Goebbels who did so much to shape the myth of the Third Reich. From Margaret Thatcher to the Nazis: let's not go down memorial lane 2013-04-22T16:04:52Z

Shakespeare’s current status is often described as “bardolatry,” an excessive veneration of the man marked by elaborate myths about who he was and what he really accomplished. The creation of William Shakespeare: How the Bard really became a legend 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

You do not need to know the specific myths to be impacted by the taut emotion, the drama of color and form, and the contrasts of light and dark. Three Seattle galleries join forces to display works of artist Michael Spafford 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

In any case, as in the myth, down she goes, and — nonspoiler alert — Orpheus soon follows, determined to win her back. Review: ‘Hadestown’ Reanimates a Well-Known Myth 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

There’s a myth, I think, that some kids are just plain talented — you train them and let them go. Feet Still, but Hearts Leaping 2010-08-31T18:39:00Z

So I hope that myth will be laid to rest. ‘Moonlight’ Unlocked the Door. Naomie Harris Charged Through It. 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

When she was nineteen, a variation on this myth was realized. America’s original California girl 2012-08-06T20:33:00Z

Still, this post-apocalyptic comedy — in which the Cape Feare episode of “The Simpsons” transforms over generations into the nurturing stuff of myth — won ardent fans among young audiences, playwrights and bloggers. From ‘The Simpsons’ to ‘The Twilight Zone.’ And Now, Trump. 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

And the old myth that arena stages favour the image over the word was effectively nailed: from where I sat I heard everything in what seems a very actor-friendly acoustic. King Lear ? review 2011-03-11T00:02:03Z

These are myths that belong to the world. Darren Aronofsky 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

The novel is about mythmaking in a way, and the stories we tell, and part of that myth is the story of women being accused of witchcraft. Paula Hawkins on 'Into the Water,' her follow up to 'The Girl on the Train' 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

The director put its withdrawal down to the army’s rigid adherence to what he called “the warrior myth”: the insistence that men who went to war returned somehow stronger in body and spirit. My streaming gem: why you should watch Let There Be Light 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

With an unfailingly light touch, Millet delivers a wry fable about climate change, imbuing foundational myths with new meaning and, finally, hope. The 10 Best Books of 2020 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

In a tug-of-war between myth and reality, the book tracks Lewis and his two remaining friends to solve this mystery. Review | In Stephen Graham Jones’s riveting ‘The Only Good Indians,’ old friends try to outrun a past mistake 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

Only one Graham work was danced in its entirety, and it was a jewel: “Cave of the Heart,” an acidic 1946 examination of the myth of Medea. Crossfit junkies have nothing on these dancers: Martha Graham’s hardbodied style

There is abundant evidence, most recently “W.E.,” the film directed by Madonna and featuring glamorous versions of the Windsors, that this myth will persist no matter what. Books of The Times: Anne Sebba on Duchess of Windsor, Scotty Bowers on Himself 2012-02-05T22:22:14Z

Re: Ken: We do folks such a disservice by propagating the myth that their vocation must be a passion to be rewarding and worthwhile. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Seeking a middle ground when one spouse works and the other plays 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

In fact, he goes all the way back to the 1920s and the updated, chamber of commerce-style marketing of the city's myth as a modern El Dorado. 'Out of Sight' gives L.A.'s '60s art scene the respect its due 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

It is to Mr. Smith’s credit that even in debunking so many of the most colorful myths — and at Tolstoyan length — he has not written a dull book. ‘Rasputin’ Unravels the Myths of the ‘Mad Monk’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Its nearly 700 objects revealed the Indian approach to nature and nature's relationship to man, myth, time and space to a public that was unfamiliar with it. Met Museum spotlights American Indian art 2012-01-17T16:44:17Z

It goes against a century’s worth of cinematic myths about the Old West. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z

The son wants to hear again about his own birth and his mother, and the tale Dad spins is laden with history, myth and faint hints of the supernatural. | 'St. Nick': Portrait of Childhood 2011-04-22T04:43:01Z

Ives is either puncturing a myth about Iowa or advancing it; either option makes her book an indulgence. What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

He also reports long-disproven myths as if they were facts, claiming, for example, that during the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, Pete Seeger tried to cut Dylan’s electric guitar’s cables with an axe. When Elvis Met Beyoncé: A History of Pop Music 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Mann builds his films upon myths that he doesn’t dare to reveal as such; his sense of reality overrides his films’ unconsidered dependence upon long-familiar and long-revised cinematic codes and tropes. The Stylish, Empty Realism of Michael Mann 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

Amid the gorgeous Capri scenery, Mr. Godard muses on storytelling’s evolution from the Homeric epic to the modern myth making of the movies, and on iconography’s progression from bronze statues to Ms. Bardot. Movie Listings for April 1-7 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

It rolls off the tongue so easily, this shorthand for the myth that tax-funded government assistance programs that help the needy also make them more indolent. "Last Man Standing" bids farewell, while Tim Allen keeps on truckin' with his right-wing shade 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

In his new book, “The Interior Circuit,” Francisco Goldman dispels this characterization as myth. Review: ‘The Interior Circuit’ by Francisco Goldman

The myth that absorbed him most fully was the myth in the making of Paul Gauguin. Art Review: The Self-Invented Artist 2011-02-24T22:33:10Z

Meanwhile, the Nazis trumpeted the "Dolchstoßlegend," the myth of the stab in the back. Germany’s strange nostalgia for the antebellum American South 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

Often there were myths about dance leading to social unrest. You know it feels good to dance. These scientists reveal why. 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

“The Corridor” is yet another Birtwistle examination of the Orpheus myth. Review: Harrison Birtwistle’s ‘The Cure’ and ‘The Corridor,’ Myths With a Twist 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

The myth of Orpheus, who pursues his beloved Eurydice into the afterlife, is as old as time. Imaginative ‘Orphée’ melds period authenticy, innovation 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

While the text arises out of a backdrop of “new and unfolding science,” the Rosicrucian myth is crucial to the shape that it took. Reimagining a Shadowy Medieval Brotherhood That Probably Didn’t Exist 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Various 20th-century crackpots intent on outlawing pregnancy termination turned to this myth and wrapped it in pseudoscience. Seven crazy myths about the female anatomy 2012-08-24T13:37:00Z

And I think those myths are what caused the play to be considered a little toxic after its original productions. ?The Band? Helped Writers Find Their Beat 2010-03-03T00:15:00Z

As lead singer Robin Pecknold's lyrical images of trees, sky, moon and sun scrolled by — with a magical overlay of fantasy and myth — the fourth wall between performer and listener slowly dissolved. Fleet Foxes enchant an ecstatic Moore Theatre crowd 2011-05-03T18:38:06Z

His South African fans remained mystified, and some even circulated an urban myth that he took his own life on stage. Searching for Sugar Man – review 2012-07-26T14:29:01Z

The song was sung right only once, and, in that way, all the creation myths about it might as well be true. Percy Sledge, Pop Miracle 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

It should — it’s perhaps the most basic motif, where nearly all stories begin, from religions to myths, fairy tales to blockbusters. ‘The School for Good and Evil’ Review: Ever Afters and Never Afters 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

It was the latest salvo in the Strad wars, a long-running debate over whether the enormous worth of such instruments is rooted in myth or merit. News Analysis: The Value of Valuable Violins 2012-01-29T04:17:15Z

And the elegant Arabian oryx, the animal that inspired the myth of the unicorn. Last night's TV: Wild Arabia – review 2013-02-22T22:59:01Z

One popular new age myth is that witches were beneficent healers and midwives persecuted by the establishment – white witches not black. Blake Morrison: under the witches' spell 2012-07-20T21:55:10Z

His work The Parting of Hero and Leander, from the Greek myth, is exhibited alongside two works by Twombly of the same title. In Pictures: Turner Monet Twombly 2012-06-22T07:19:58Z

The filmmaker spoke with Salon about his new documentary and the myth of and experience being James Bond. In "The Other Fellow," real people named James Bond reveal the blessing and curse of the 007 moniker 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z

The Doctors A myth linking antiperspirant to breast cancer. Thursday's TV Highlights: 'Elementary' on CBS 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

What buyers are clamoring to see, though, may not be the art but the urban myth itself: the subterranean universe beneath Dupont Circle. Could these formerly sealed-off tunnels be D.C.’s new artsy photo-op? 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

It’s not always easy to find a wide choice of strictly vegan dishes in an Italian restaurant, but it’s a myth that all pasta or risotto dishes are cheesy, buttery affairs. How to eat out if you're vegan 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Arguably the best-known of those myths is the story of the first Thanksgiving, a holiday Robert Magnan, who led the buffalo hunt at Fort Peck, does not observe. The Thanksgiving Myth Gets a Deeper Look This Year 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

His adaptation of Wagner's Nordic myths as a 19th-century drama of capitalist exploitation of workers met with raucous boos at its debut. France bows to stage director Patrice Chereau, dead at 68 2013-10-08T15:56:08Z

It was a myth and it’s been busted, and it’s been broken.” The sweet rise of ‘Queen Sugar’ director Cierra Glaude 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

Not only do we finally learn the details of her dark history, but the novel deconstructs and reimagines the founding myths of their marriage. ‘Fates and Furies’ review: A masterful tale of marriage and secrets 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

So, please tell "Upset" that this is not an urban myth. Perspective | Ask Amy: Veterans respond to tough homecomings 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z

What is not treated as myth in the film, but should have? Don't just laugh at "Hillbilly Elegy" — its damaging myths still need to be countered 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

“It’s a sacred tree with a lot of myths around it,” said Garcia. In Oaxaca, a Meal to Celebrate a Pioneering Artist’s Legacy 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

The myth of the tortured artist is so seductive, I clung to it for dear life. Paintings, Projections, V.R. Starry Nights: Can We Ever Know van Gogh? 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z

Do you want to expand on the Asian American myth, and how you fit to that or not? Han who? Sung Kang on his new "Snakehead" bad boy: "Even his hairstyle – he's overcompensating" 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

Last week the French daily Le Monde declared that by firing Mr. Galliano, Dior had sounded the “death knell for the myth of the omnipotent designer.” Op-Ed Contributor: High Fascism 2011-03-07T06:48:00Z

Harvey mingles scenes from Wagner's domestic life with the myth of Prakriti, whose love for the Buddhist monk Ananda is at first thwarted. The best classical concerts and operas for spring 2013 2013-04-01T06:00:00Z

But the overwhelming impression is of his awakening to the myth of urban glamour. The Man 2010-05-31T20:45:00Z

This, I ponder on my final morning, standing in the courtyard of Thikse Monastery, is Ladakh’s magic: to blur the lines between history and myth, past and present. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one

The formal setting is an appropriate backdrop; Renoir may have been influenced by the classical myth of the judgment of Paris and biblical imagery of Eve. Home & Design: Yard art, Washington-style, including a Calder and a fiberglass cow

But a popular myth, lately dented by revivals of Terence Rattigan and Graham Greene, is further punctured by this production of Lesley Storm's intriguing family drama, which ran for 409 performances in 1949. Black Chiffon ? review 2011-01-18T22:01:01Z

Let me just say at this point that the stereotype of the laconic farmer who speaks only when spoken to, in utterances no longer than a single syllable, is a complete and total myth. ‘Harvest’: A meander through America’s family farms 2012-12-27T20:07:55Z

“By absorbing Jesus’s death into Aboriginal myth, Weatherby suggests that it, too, has sacred significance and is for his people,” Ms. Jones said. Searching for a Jesus Who Looks More Like Me 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

In other words, what the concept, the myth, of downtown has always meant: authenticity, community, do-it-yourself energy. To Get to City Opera, Mr. Downtown Practiced Eclecticism 2011-03-18T23:21:12Z

You are probably thinking, wait a minute — no one ever assumed these stories are always written by Jewish people, so how could this be an exploded myth? Gene Weingarten: Mythunderstood

Obamacare pool spending exposes the myth of the uninsured So, where are we now, almost two years after the law’s passage? Report: Obamacare's High-Risk Pool Spending Doubles Government Estimates 2012-02-26T01:05:16Z

And then I realized that this is connected to the larger problem Americans have about class, that they believe a myth. The deep roots of “white trash” in America: “Not only are we not a post-racial society, we are certainly not a post-class society” 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z

Which is helpful, given his apparent fondness for myths of antiquity. New Music: ‘La Misma Gran Senora’ by Jenni Rivera and ‘Tiresian Symmetry’ by Jason Robinson 2012-12-17T22:57:59Z

I kept falling for handsome artistic narcissists and their beautiful myths, while ordinary guys with decent looks, good jobs and kind natures simply didn’t register on my radar. Transference? I’ll Take It 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

It was, he tells us, “a myth” that the Puritans favored religious freedom for all. Why Evangelicals Support Donald Trump 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

Countless legends have been born in this clime, and a big part of Douglas’s mission is sifting out the reality from the myth. Climbing the Himalaya With Soldiers, Spies, Lamas and Mountaineers 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

She does paintings, paper works and mixed media, and her influences include Greek myths, science fiction and modernist industrial design. A Diverse Selection at Frieze London 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

“I think there was this myth around a window that’s closing, such as the anniversary of the Me Too movement,” Jones said in an interview. Comedians have long used rape as a punchline. The Me Too era is changing that. 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

A particular treat is her ear for lurid local myths. Mapping history 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

This famous moment of live art survives as a legend, a myth. Tino Sehgal has created a you-had-to-be-there moment at Tate Modern 2012-07-24T12:56:01Z

“It is vital that the myth of Hamilton as ‘the Abolitionist Founding Father’ end,” Serfilippi writes in the paper, entitled, “‘As Odious and Immoral a Thing’: Alexander Hamilton’s Hidden History as an Enslaver.” Research sheds light on Alexander Hamilton as slave owner 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

Her genius is to connect these far-off musical milieus with our world and our vital concerns, with myth, with the environment, with war and peace. Gloria Coates' great oddity on display at REDCAT 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Brooke Williams You Are Not So Smart Debunks the many myths and illusions we believe about ourselves. Internet picks of the week 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z

Over the last week, the first big myth already started crumbling: that the party of holier-than-thou ideology, forever touting eternal purity, won’t embrace Trumpenstein. What “unity” with Trump means: For Republicans, winning is everything, principles are swept away and hypocrisy reigns 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

When you heard the songs, like “Hellhound on My Trail” and “Cross Road Blues,” the myth wasn’t hard to buy into. A Biography of a Blues Legend, Five Decades in the Making 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

Anyway, the spiral pattern of glyphs on the disk and its origin on Crete, where the Theseus myth is set, got me thinking of Theseus and the labyrinth. This Week in Fiction: Amelia Gray 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

And then Richard comes along, and he has the same love of the cowboy and the myth. Richard Prince: This Ain’t No Retrospective, It’s a Rodeo 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

Contrary to common myth, bullies are less misfits than they are socially attuned Machiavellis. Studied: Studies Show Bullies Want Friends, Too 2010-05-21T23:50:00Z

The myth of the blood-thirsty great white proved dangerous for the sharks. The great Atlantic comeback of the great white shark 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

So much for the old saw that we, like the myth most white Mississippians believe, were Scotch Irish, too poor to own slaves, and illiterate from the start. Despite my mama’s secret shame, she was the smartest person I knew 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

And not just any myth, but one as inevitable as that of Sisyphus, in which persistence is the only victory. Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird': It lingers, but not in the way he expected 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

The script reads like a mash-up of creation myths, poetic descriptions of all things star dust-related and penetrating thoughts about the mystery of the universe and our place in it. Stars reading about our stars: Sterling K. Brown, Darren Criss and others to perform 'In the Cosmos' 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

Those newspapers — the story printed on them isn't of city-hall scandal or international crisis but brief passages lifted from Greek myth and other sources, repeated over and over again. Ingenious artist Katherine Ace shows work at Seattle's Woodside/Braseth Gallery 2010-09-22T23:13:00Z

At times like this I questioned my distaste for the man and his work — many of his Latin names are thoughtful and carry physical and quantitative characteristics, metaphor and allusions to myth. A Botanist in Swedish Lapland 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the roots of this myth run deep. My four miscarriages: why is losing a pregnancy so shrouded in mystery? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Trawled out of Bruce's subconscious, mixing brash contemporary images with old movies and ancient myth, Made in Heaven requires us to be in a place where magic can supersede critical logic. Mark Bruce Company: Made in Heaven – review 2012-06-05T17:14:01Z

In that spirit, here’s a mix of stories about stories, looking at old myths from new angles, exploding received ways of thinking, and exploring or inventing vast new terrains. Storytelling Can Be a Dangerous Game in These New Novels 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

We all come on this journey with preconceived notions and myths about family history research. Tracing my African American genealogy 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

This is the classical correlate to virtually any story of ordinary people suddenly endowed with superpowers—all the more so here, as a myth of secrets secretly revealed. Review: Taraji P. Henson Redeems “What Men Want” 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

The Cleopatra ballet will join a long list of dramatisations of her myth - from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and an opera by Handel to the lavish 1960s blockbuster starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Cleopatra reborn 2011-02-24T10:41:18Z

Yet when we examine these twelve steps more closely, we find dubious ideas and even some potentially harmful myths. The pseudo-science of Alcoholics Anonymous: There’s a better way to treat addiction 2014-03-23T18:30:00Z

In one piece, for example, he mocks “the history, the rumor, the myth, the praise, the double-eye” and “the crocodile-grinning farce” of leaders. A Provocative Satirist Left a Pervasive Legacy, Influencing African Writing 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

The myth of the rogue shark, as he explained in a 2012 TED Talk, is just that — a myth. How “Jaws” ruined everything for great white sharks 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

During both the benefits and the risks periods, many myths and misinformation are disseminated. Getting prescription meds right 2013-02-18T16:00:00Z

At bottom, it’s about telling stories, the creation of myth and how we try to make the stories of our own lives come out right. Perspective | The Met’s ‘Ring’ succeeds in spite of — and in no way supported by — a $16 million set 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

The Singapore International Film Festival opened with Malaysian film "Interchange," a fantasy thriller about a forensics photographer in the world of tribal myths, and Singaporean short film "The Pursuit of a Happy Human Life." Michelle Yeoh coy about 'Star Trek' as Singapore festival opens 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Let's abandon the romantic myth that writers must survive in the garret, and look at the facts. Are books dead, and can authors survive? 2011-08-22T16:21:14Z

This investigation required that Seidule, a native Virginian and graduate of Washington and Lee University, examine his own reverence for Lee and the myth of the Lost Cause. Puncturing the Allure of Robert E. Lee, and Other Civil War-Era Histories 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

The myths persist not because they are true, but because they are pervasive and under-scrutinized. They’re the politically correct: Ben Carson and Bill O’Reilly are the real intolerant speech police 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

The myth of Medicare’s low administrative costs is routinely put forth by those who advocate government-run health care. A Look Back at Year One of The Apothecary at Forbes 2012-01-31T17:22:00Z

Pozner scolds the country for the “myth of efficiency” and the “myth of service” that drive its economy. Lars Iyer’s ‘Wittgenstein Jr.,’ Daniel Kehlmann’s ‘F’ and More 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

The all-mighty power of the theater critic was always a bit of a myth, though. ArtsBeat: Ben Brantley Answers Readers' Questions, Part 2 2012-12-06T16:13:06Z

Taylor aims to explode popular myths about the Revolution, exposing Patriot contradictions and hypocrisies in his provocative, convincing account. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

“Warhol was a myth when he was alive, and he’s even more of a myth now,” said Donna De Salvo, deputy director and senior curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Warhol at the Whitney: From Myth to Man 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

In classic myths of the Hero's Journey, women are symbolic prizes at that journey's end. New in sci fi, fantasy and horror: titles by Joan Aiken, Jennifer McMahon and Tin House 2011-08-20T18:05:54Z

“Stalking myths are false or exaggerated beliefs about stalking that minimise its seriousness, which means that someone who more strongly endorses these tends to take stalking less seriously.” Study finds rom-coms teach female filmgoers to tolerate 'stalker myth' 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

We know the myths of Iphigenia and Andromache, so the plots Haynes imagines for them feel familiar, if the specifics seem more terrible. Stories of War and Its Aftermath, From Ancient Greece to America in ‘2034’ 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

Berg’s life and even the inscrutable circumstances surrounding his death 49 years ago linger as ongoing mysteries, a melange of fact, myth and opaque clues. The strange life and death of Moe Berg, the baseball catcher who became a spy 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

Art and activism are deeply intertwined in his work: As part of his “trilogy of ancient myths,” he rehearsed and filmed part of an adaptation of Aeschylus’ “Oresteia” in Iraq in 2019. ‘Antigone in the Amazon’ Review: The Drama Is Brazil’s Land War 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

An urban myth circulates that sporks were first invented by Gen. Douglas MacArthur as part of the U.S. occupation of Japan in the 1940s. Consider the spork 2012-10-06T16:00:00Z

The biggest myth is that washing your hair frequently is bad, but there is no real rationale for that. How to wash your hair 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

An Oxford graduate student discovers that her mentor has damaged her prospects in order to keep her close in this retelling of the Daphne and Apollo myth. Newly Published, From African Art to 3,000 Years of Athens History 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

It’s a putrid myth we’re taught about ourselves, that if in teenhood a man finds himself hopelessly attracted to us, the kernel of essential badness and transgression comes from us, not from him. Speak, Memory: The Haunting Memoir of ‘The Tale’ 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

This is a Gaiman book, so it's no surprise that there is magic and myth. Reader reviews roundup 2013-06-21T16:44:54Z

The cover further inflated the myth Pearl Jam had spent years attempting to tamp down, and Vedder hated the accompanying photo. Eddie Vedder on the cover of Time. Pearl Jam and Nirvana at No. 1. In the fall of 1993, grunge was king. 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

In fact, this film is largely responsible for spreading the myth that he wore a pirate-style patch. That Hamilton Woman: a tale of two halves (for better or for worse) 2011-01-06T09:07:00Z

“After watching excerpts from one of these six films, participants completed a series of survey measures, including one that assessed their endorsement of stalking myths,” Lippman said. Study finds rom-coms teach female filmgoers to tolerate 'stalker myth' 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

The darkest supernatural myth about Zeppelin’s most mythic song is that if you play the recording backwards, you will hear Satanic messages encoded in Plant’s vocals. What exactly lurks within the backward grooves of “Stairway to Heaven?” 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z

In “The Neutral Ground,” “Daily Show” producer CJ Hunt explores debate over Confederate monuments through the lens of Reconstruction-era myths that still govern modern-day narratives about racism and slavery. AFI Docs shows us where the histories are buried, and why that matters more than ever 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

The common myth here is that we handed them Gaza on a silver plate and got rockets in return. ‘Fanaticism is the plague of the 21st century’: Israeli author Amos Oz fears for the future 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

However, the secular support movement helps people live with the challenges and troubles that come with being human without turning to myths or mysticism, and that makes leaving religion easier for those who choose to. 8 atheist leaders actually worth listening to 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

There were some articles recently saying it should be pretty much canceled as it's disgusting, that it perpetuates the class myth, that there was a sort of benign benevolence in certain estates. Hugh Bonneville on the enduring charm of "Downton Abbey" and why he was nervous to film "Paddington" 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

Informed by her 10 years in a mental health unit, she explodes the myth of the madwoman in the attic, revealing how we are complicit in our society's social constructs. Left out: the authors who know disability from inside 2013-07-11T10:55:47Z

Hell was a big theme this year, thanks to “Hadestown,” Anaïs Mitchell’s boogie-woogie retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, which was nominated for fourteen awards and won eight, including Best Musical. The 2019 Tony Awards: “Hadestown” Triumphs, Elaine May Sparkles, and Billy Porter Wins the Red Carpet 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

In comic book stores this week is the first issue of “Fairest,” a spin-off of “Fables,” the long-running series by Bill Willingham, about storybook characters of myth. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: Bane and Doomsday Return 2012-03-09T18:41:34Z

The show featured, among other things, a re-enactment of the Sisyphus myth by the school’s tae kwon do club. Up Close: He Puts the Maximus in the Circus 2011-05-04T18:07:02Z

Contrary to economic theory and popular myth, privatisation is inefficient. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z

Though he could be erratic and difficult, though he suffered breakdowns and depressions, van Gogh was far from the madman of myth. Books of The Times: ?Van Gogh: The Life,? by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith 2011-10-20T21:57:30Z

It also didn’t hurt that like this bold, adventurous Polynesian heroine, Ms. Cravalho also grew up swimming, surfing, paddle boarding, cracking jokes and hearing myths about the island deity Maui. Four Actresses Everyone Will Be Talking About This Fall 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

For a first-time reader, the book consistently dispels several half-truths and myths. Review | Ulysses S. Grant, perennially misunderstood, gets a thorough re-examination 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

Along with a handful of other critics, I disliked Joker, the new origin myth movie for Batman’s great villain, starring Joaquin Phoenix. Netflix, Marvel, Brexit – and Weinstein: how this decade radically reshaped cinema’s heroes and villains 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

But this is more about general myths about women vs. realities. 4 noxious myths about “what women want,” debunked 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Mustang was a caldron of myth, as I discovered on a 16-day trek through the Himalayan region of Nepal in September. Explorer: Myths and Mountains in Nepal 2012-10-28T06:23:48Z

The conclusions burst the myth of the media "bubble" -- the notion that no one pays attention to anything beyond a limited sphere of interest, like celebrities or college hoops or Facebook posts. Poll: People still seek meaty news on media buffet 2014-03-18T13:42:14Z

Serafinowicz, with sharp, sunny delivery, nails the sort of delusion underpinning the myth, the cracked psyche that it would take to put on a form-fitting costume replete with bobbing antennae and leap toward the sky. Streaming Now: Two Sets of Subversive Heroes 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

The Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène rendered myth a visual map that rescued the African past from the sullying grasp of empire. In These Ousmane Sembène Films, Women Are Revolutionaries 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z

Even Blancpain, which left the village in the 1980s, still offers a highbrow collection that carries the Villeret name, paying homage to the power of a creation myth. Special Report: Watches: A Living Museum of Watchmaking 2011-01-17T08:00:57Z

Often, though, these kind of comments – see also the Las – only serve to bolster the myth. The Strokes' Angles: has making an album ever sounded more depressing? 2011-03-11T11:36:27Z

His work is made harder by his subject, who knew the value of myth. Review | ‘True Believer’ tries to capture Stan Lee. It isn’t easy. 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

Now the same myths are rumbling through the country's bars, online forums and, worryingly, major news outlets. Barack Obama and his wild, drug-taking roomie 2012-10-03T15:08:57Z

Why are black men willing to embrace the myths of hypersexuality and abnormally large endowment? 'As a black woman I'm always fetishised': racism in the bedroom 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

She claims Albanian myths happened to her family; she observes Balkan customs that don't exist; and she greatly exaggerates her report of her parents' deaths. 'My New American Life': Francine Prose's satirical novel of immigration 2011-05-11T21:04:03Z

That's a reference to the common myth that celebrity deaths come in threes. Zsa Zsa Gabor hospitalized after Liz Taylor death 2011-03-24T13:51:32Z

Taken together, the topics and media dispel myths about a monolithic, geographically based Latin American genre of art. How the Denver Art Museum Kicked Columbus Out the Door 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

Fascinating facts bump misty myths to the side. Surprises abound in the illuminating 'Leap Before You Look' at UCLA's Hammer Museum 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

It irked me that so many young wives and mothers seemed to be perpetuating the evil mother-in-law myth and believed young women needed to be kinder and gentler and more understanding of their poor mothers-in-laws. Carolyn Hax: Onetime defender of maligned mothers-in-law reverses course 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Holiday was working with a myth that already existed when in 1956 she released her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. Billie Holiday's Story Was Even More Complicated Than You Think 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

But in its fashion, as one lyric promises, it is also “one hundred and ten percent absolutely true” — a correction of those whitewashed myths from our past that omit whole populations. 8 Things to Do This Fourth of July Weekend 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Betrayed by a president he once revered, Jack was left as a man alone, a ghost of liberty who dissolved in a hail of pixels and passed into the realm of myth. Dear "24": I loved you, but I'm glad it's over 2010-05-25T12:46:00Z

It’s a version of the Greek myth in which she, having helped Jason retrieve the Golden Fleece, exacts revenge on him after he abandons her. The Met Opera Takes on ‘Medea’ in the Shadow of Maria Callas 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

“But cultural specificity is a myth, even within national groups of artists. Making room for difference is what counts today.” El Museo del Barrio, Stabilized, Expands Its Mission 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Her interest in animal imagery, myth and occult symbolism deepened after she moved to Mexico and entered into a creative partnership with the émigré Spanish artist Remedios Varo. Leonora Carrington Is Dead at 94; Artist and Author of Surrealist Work 2011-05-27T03:30:06Z

The book grants the harsh facts of history the weight of myth; but the plot itself is not quite the point; this is a novel about the women. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

I suspect that many of us will agree on one thing; that leftover wine is something of a myth. 23 recipes for leftover wine 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

LP: There’s a persistent myth that America is still the “land of opportunity.” Hip-Hop foodies 2012-06-27T13:46:00Z

"That's the problem here is that the police are more interested in upholding the myth than they are in changing the reality." South Carolina cops vs. “The Hate U Give”: Police challenge books over police brutality content 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

For many of these characters the American dream is a tangible thing, not just an idea or a myth. Kumail Nanjiani on ‘Little America’ and Hopeful Immigrant Stories 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Its sources are dream and memory, myth and desire. Review: ‘The Woman Warrior,’ by Maxine Hong Kingston 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

In this modern retelling of the Persephone myth, Nikki wakes up after 100 years of being cuddled against her Everliving, Cole - and he's sucked her dry. Lenore Appelhans's top 10 books featuring flashbacks 2013-01-17T12:35:11Z

Then there is the period itself, a time when England was becoming England and making the myths that we now recognize. Philippa Gregory's how-to on writing about the Tudors 2011-12-29T21:08:06Z

Putting herself in situations that would give "Homeland's" Carrie Mathison pause, Mei seems to be operating less under the lingering myth of Western invincibility and more beneath a jet-lagged cloud of absurdity. 'One Child' examines injustice at expense of personal pain 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Skies lighten or darken, a seasonal theme loosely linked to the myth of Persephone. Flavorful Bites in a Virtual Reality 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

But in this country of 15 million people, the demand for virgins is big business that thrives due to cultural myth and other local factors. Virginity for sale: inside Cambodia's shocking trade 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

This whole myth we have of the lonely genius Bill Gates struggling, up until three in the morning, in the middle of the night. Embrace doing nothing, especially if you're working from home 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

The campaign against abortion is riddled with both mis- and disinformation, or what in plainspeak might be referred to as “myths” and “lies.” The 7 biggest myths about abortion 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

It is easy to see how these periods and their myths inspired Martin. An introduction to the stories and British history that inspired the beasts of "House of the Dragon" 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

It’s a strategy embodied in a current exhibition, “Making Visible,” which honors Native cultures of the Southwest by exploding popular myths about the American West. Museums Look Locally for Growth and, Sometimes, Survival 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Frayling’s detailed cultural history of “Frankenstein,” which comprises the book’s other half, is no less illustrative of “a creation myth which works for today.” The Mother of Frankenstein 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The myth of the sasquatch, he added, “represents a longing to make sense of whatever it is that’s incomplete in us” — an urge palpable in all his films. ?Letters From the Big Man,? Starring Lily Rabe 2011-11-04T22:01:54Z

For instance, a destructive myth about people who live in Chicago’s most dangerous neighborhoods is that they’ve grown hardened, numb to the atrocities that saturate daily life. Growing Up With Murder All Around 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

And then you end at Montgenèvre Pass, which, according to the myth, is the path that Hercules created by pounding a forest into the mountain and setting fire to it. Q&A: Biking Hercules’ Way in France 2014-04-18T18:27:06Z

Cinema has more responsibility in this regard precisely because of its heightened realism, its ability to burrow into our collective consciousness and memory, where the myth has a tendency to overpower settled fact. Film fact-checking is here to stay. So let’s agree on some new rules. 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

As Wanda watches Vision slowly vanish before her eyes, viewers may be reminded of the myth of Orpheus, a Greek hero, and his wife, Eurydice. "WandaVision" echoes myths of Isis, Orpheus and Kisa Gotami to explain how grief and love persevere 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z

There is a pervasive, odious myth about art-making—and I’ve certainly been complicit in its dissemination—that has to do with anguish as fuel for a particular kind of emoting. The True Gladness of Allen Toussaint 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

“It took a lot of time and effort to establish the myths of Reconstruction,” he said. Park Service Project Would Address the Reconstruction Era 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

It could be that in uncertain times, myths give us something sturdy to lean on, a narrative handrail to grip as we stumble through the centuries. Perspective | New opera by Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter remakes myth without sacrificing music 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Gupta, who was raised in a supportive, well-to-do Indian American family in the Pennsylvania suburbs, uses her own experience to examine the dark side of the model minority myth. 14 Nonfiction Books to Read This Summer 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

So it's kind of weird that I've been a Scottish buff, myth and legends buff. Pixar's 'Brave' gang shares tales of Scotland 2012-06-21T15:30:09Z

With his impeccable talent for getting out of trouble while getting women into bed, Bond fed the myth of spying as a glamorous, exciting romp. John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z

But as the myth strengthened, the brand widened. Critical Shopper: At Flight 23, the Best Jordans are on the Customers 2014-03-19T21:35:12Z

Last night’s episode of astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s hit series, “Cosmos,” finally addressed the issue of climate change head-on, taking down a number of the most insidious myths propagated by climate deniers in the process. Neil deGrasse Tyson destroys more climate myths: Yes, we’re the problem 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

Referring to the solar-powered charger, he said: "It's about capturing the sun, the oldest myth in every culture in the world," he said. Radio 4's A History of the World in 100 Objects draws to a close 2010-10-14T11:26:00Z

Brennan-Jobs’s attempt to take control of some modest part of the Steve Jobs myth has almost inevitably unfolded in ways that reinscribe his power, both over his family and a reverent public. “Small Fry,” Reviewed: Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s Mesmerizing, Discomfiting Memoir 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Yet such was his myth by the late-20th century, even critics often overlooked his clunkier designs, as well as the fact that a proportion of what he did could seem dashed off and superficial. Is Virgil Abloh the Karl Lagerfeld for Millennials? 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

He admits, alas, no, but does confess that there is something of the cult, something a bit zen sensible shot through with shifty new age nonsense, surrounding the reality, myth and memory of Sun Ra. Paul Morley talks to ex-Specials singer Jerry Dammers 2010-03-26T11:44:00Z

According to myth, the god Apollo started these games at Delphi after killing Python, the dragon living there; hence, they were named the Pythian Games in recognition of this act. An Olympic Odyssey: Where the Games Began 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

It was a series in active dialogue with what the historian Richard Hofstadter called the “agrarian myth”: the notion that innocence and decency and hard work belonged to the hinterlands. ‘Mad Men’ and the 1960s as Wild Republican Times 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Like the spurious right-wing myth of the self-made man, these stories elide the universal need for help. The labor laws of the superhero universe amount to disturbing propaganda 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z

“A myth is a myth because it actually lives somewhere in our hearts and in how our brains work. They come from questions, like ‘Why are we afraid of the dark?’ Podcast ‘Live from Mount Olympus’ readies for new adventure 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

"Undine" recasts a myth in a modern-day setting. "Undine" is an exquisite, romantic reimagining of an underwater myth using a phallic CGI catfish 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

Clearly, “The Latinist” itself is a clever updating of the Daphne and Apollo myth — a modern tale of coercive power and last minute changes of fortune. Review | ‘The Latinist’ is the perfect suspense novel to kick off your reading year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

The first, "Errand Into the Maze," was Graham's version of the myth of the Minotaur. Martha Graham at VPAC: Dance as bridge from past to future 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

“The myth is that the military teaches discipline,” says the Chicago-area Veterans for Peace, in their “education not militarization” campaign. Claiming our right not to kill: Resolutions should be about fighting racism, greed and militarism 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

Five women with a spectrum of body types, at times topless, critique the myth of the ideal feminine body as perpetuated by ballet. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Her play, written a few years after her father’s death, added a twist, grafting onto the traditional myth a story about a parent and child grieving their distance. Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Eurydice’ Tries to Raise the Dead 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

What hasn’t changed is the gap between myth and reality, whether it’s Marvel Studios hyping the latest superhero franchise or Jack Warner planting stories in Photoplay. Ghosts of Old Hollywood, as a Podcast 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

But really, public opinion is shifting because the case against pitbulls – like bloodhounds or Dobermans before them – was built on a shaky foundation of myths and media hype. In defense of the pitbull 2013-02-05T19:35:00Z

In person, and on its website, the museum embraces the rich history of American immigration — using facts to challenge myths and rhetoric. New York City Museums Teach the History of Immigration 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

He was an American writer and a quintessential one at that, unpacking uncomfortable truths and deconstructing myths, never settling for a simplistic, black-or-white point of view. Literary Idol: Jose Antonio Vargas on James Baldwin 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

I consider it essentially a tender rescue myth, an Orpheus and Eurydice-type story repurposed to feature familial instead of romantic love and made startling by a bravely happy ending. For ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Fans, an Audiobook That Celebrates Madeleine L’Engle 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

"It sounds like a bit of an urban myth," he says gently. Sex, violence and swearing on film: 100 years of the BBFC 2012-07-26T18:59:03Z

"They perpetuate the myth that people on economic assistance programs choose not to work when the evidence clearly shows otherwise." How did hunger become a hot-button partisan issue? 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z

In those novels, magic works as myth, as context, deepens the humanity. The magic is missing in Toni Morrison's 'God Help the Child' 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Hill-Gibbins added that his central focus was the interplay between the classical myth and a contemporary setting — any contemporary setting. The Orchestra Brawls in a ‘Beer and Pizza’ Oedipus Opera 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

This backdrop is part of the film, but it more properly takes place in the romantic world of film noir and the elevated realm of myth. In highlights of Cannes, a hush falls over the festival 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Homicide rates actually decline in December, and contrary to popular myth, so do suicide rates. Perspective | It’s Christmas. Let the murder begin. 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

He tosses the myths into orbit with the light-fingered panache of a reincarnated Frank O’Hara. Solmaz Sharif and the poetics of a new American generation 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

Unconventional elements of their finished documentary include interpretive dance sequences and a series of animated recreations of some key Mansfield myths. Siren, satanist or comic genius? The myths of Jayne Mansfield 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z

He dispelled myths about his own life, regardless of whether the lie would have been more flattering. David Crosby, a King of Twitter 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

But it should seem obvious that his look, like his myth itself, can be adapted. Stop saying Santa is white 2013-12-16T18:52:00Z

And two new studies help debunk widespread myths about carbohydrates, which are typically shunned by adherents to paleo, Whole30 and similar diets. Your grain-free diet isn’t natural, good for you or good for the planet 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

The Vogels became legends in their own time and myths grew up around them. An everyday couple, their valuable art and how SAM got it 2013-05-29T23:40:33Z

To borrow Mr. Hayes’s phrase, it was time to build some new myths. The ‘Esquire Man’ Is Dead. Long Live the ‘Esquire Man.’ 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

“Apex ideals had been based on the myth of ‘old families’ ruling New York from a throne of Revolutionary tradition, with the new millionaires paying them feudal allegiance.” Events Like a Drawing Center Benefit and the Winter Antiques Show Gala Cater to the Rich and Famous 2014-01-29T23:20:15Z

As his lawyer says to him towards the end: "Every creation myth needs a devil." The Social Network: How to make a sensational film about coding Facebook, by Aaron Sorkin 2010-09-28T10:22:00Z

The myth of Bonnie and Clyde dies hard, especially because of Arthur Penn’s romanticized crime film, which hit screens with a splatter in 1967. ‘Dreamland’ Review: Bang Bang, Blah Blah 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

But he was best known for “The Americans,” a montage that countered the 1950s myth of bland prosperity and opened vast new possibilities for photography, shifting the paradigm from the portrait to the snapshot. Groundbreaking photographer Robert Frank dies at age 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Long consigned to the realm of anecdote and legend, this ambitious project was revisited by De Middel in a photobook that combines myth and reality in constructed colour photographs, drawings and letters. Deutsche Börse 2013 – a shortlist that's short of photographers 2012-11-26T16:32:00Z

The scene cited by the judges deals with the part of the myth where the son makes loves with his mother. David Guterson wins 2011 Bad Sex writing award 2011-12-06T21:21:11Z

Photograph: Joel Fildes /National Theatre Wales The small town of Llangefni, on the island of Anglesey, is pregnant with local myths and legend. Things I Forgot I Remembered – review 2013-06-16T16:14:04Z

But he will act as a consultant until the end of the year on a series of four operas about the Greek myth of Orpheus in the company’s coming season. Daniel Kramer Quits at English National Opera 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

The notion of an underwater city named Atlantis may have started with Plato, but here the myth is mined more in the theme park and Jacques Cousteau vein. Following an 8-Year-Old to Atlantis 2014-03-07T16:28:34Z

But for a Californian traveling abroad in the wake of an earthquake election, the play seemed like an elegy for an American era that couldn’t help failing to live up to its own myth. London theater forecast after Brexit and Trump: Overcast skies with a chance of apocalypse 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

And it included the last song Kate McGarrigle wrote, “Proserpina,” retelling the myth of Persephone for its tension between a prodigal daughter and her baleful mother. Music Review: Her Folksy Parlor, Crowded With Family and Friends 2011-05-15T22:02:17Z

It's a myth that started, appropriately enough, in the Romantic age at the end of the 18th century and has lasted through to the age of email. Salinger: a burger-lover in the rye 2011-01-27T23:00:01Z

The plot was inspired by the myth that human beings use only 10% of their brain power. Johansson's Lucy tops UK box office 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

A myth is being invented by the painter drawing on his imagination and bringing together all the strands of his culture. Gauguin, Obsessive Chameleon 2010-10-01T14:33:00Z

Either way, it’s a harmless urban myth about Hendrix. That never happened: the biopic conundrum 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

I plan to bust down these myths and show you the simplest, cheapest way to improve your coffee game at home, one element at a time. How to brew better coffee at home (and save money) in 5 easy steps 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

The show famously ends with “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out,” the E Street Band’s founding myth, which tells the story of how Springsteen and Clemons met, solidified the band, and changed one another’s life. Born in the U.S.A.: When the president met the Boss 2012-05-28T18:00:00Z

When he jumped out the window — gunshots whizzing by him — he appeared as both man and myth. Michael K. Williams Brought His Whole Life to His Characters 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

The pandemic was good for authoritarian governments, which used the crisis to consolidate power, arrest opposition, close the free press and articulate new myths of their own competence. Perspective | As the art world reopens, will the change be genuine? This critic is looking in some unlikely places. 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

A deeply held American myth maintains that the country has consistently emphasized individual liberty over collective solidarity, but Witt says that this wasn’t always the case. Using the Law to Fight Epidemics, for Better and Worse 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

The dominant narrative of the endangered white person barely making it out of the hood alive is, of course, a myth. Gentrification’s insidious violence: The truth about American cities 2014-04-08T18:34:00Z

Somewhere along the way, Davis lost track of where the man ends and the myth begins. Raiders owner Al Davis dies at 82 2011-10-08T16:27:00Z

One of them is the Urban Legend, so named for the childhood myth that Coke and Pop Rocks, eaten together, would explode in the stomach. Review | Rib-sticking Caribbean delights pop at Bloomingdale’s new Spark 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

“Cow Devil,” “Faunus,” “Goddess” and “Conjoined” all could be figures from myth or folklore. 4 art exhibitions to see at Seattle-area galleries in December 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

The Western tradition of the isolated heroic genius toiling away in a lab or study is based on myth as much as fact, she added. Innovation Far Removed From the Lab 2011-02-10T00:12:30Z

The “Ring” is not only about myth, but about its interpretations, and coming to terms with the story you end up with. Perspective | The Met’s ‘Ring’ succeeds in spite of — and in no way supported by — a $16 million set 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

That said, the show does have a flair for the epic, as seen in a semifinal inspired by Greek myths, specifically their divine punishments. The strength of "Physical: 100" is in what is has to say about our view of the perfect physique 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

“The Nutty Nutcracker, I always tell kids now, is an urban myth,” Glover said. ‘The Nutcracker’: Fairies and tulle onstage, total nuts backstage 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

That’s one reason that the myth of the bottomless lake, here and elsewhere, might qualify as one piece of science-denial that actually serves a purpose. Our deep lakes incite curiosity and conjure legends 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

Like all such myths, they are a bit frightening. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

I am stuck to earth,” she wrote, introducing “a map of our country,” with its “battlefield/ from a nineteenth century war,” its “sea-town of myth and story when the fishing fleets/ went bankrupt.” Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z

The best directors of the classic era developed elaborate aesthetic strategies and symbolic systems to reflect on, and break through, the very myths and exclusions that they were built upon. Cameron Crowe's Reactionary Nostalgia 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

As another portrayal arrives Sunday with the new Epix series “Billy the Kid,” it carries a tricky question as well: Which version of the myth will attract viewers in 2022? In This ‘Billy the Kid,’ the Wounds Are Those You Cannot See 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Another way to combat misinformation is to create a compelling narrative that incorporates the correct information, and focuses on the facts rather than dispelling myths—a technique called “de-biasing.” Can we stop lies from becoming “facts”? 2012-10-04T19:28:00Z

The structure depicts the battle between the Greeks and the Amazons, a popular Hellenistic myth that was later adapted by the Romans. At a Roman Museum, Jazz Joins the Mix 2010-05-11T10:00:00Z

The painter based his story on verses in Ovid's "Metamorphoses," itself based on a Greek myth. Fame finally comes to little-known Renaissance master Piero di Cosimo 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

For González, who wasn’t born until 1974, reconstructing moments of Communist pomp he never witnessed is a way of questioning an outmoded national myth. In the Galleries: Exploring Cuba via the artwork 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

The photographer’s subject is Southern California, although he is not interested in the usual myths. Southern California, End of the Line 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

But over the course of 90 minutes, “Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator” successfully separates the man from the myth and reveals a monster. "Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator" separates the man from the myth, revealing a monster 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

He was intrigued by the interplay of ancient myths and pop culture. Kenneth Anger, 96, Dies; Experimental Filmmaker Left a Pop Culture Legacy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

A myth has long persisted among scholars that the schoolgirl rugs were used on top of carpets as protection from fireplace sparks. Antiques: Repaired China, the Potter John Bennett, Schoolgirl Rugs 2013-01-17T22:21:55Z

Paul Lanagan recalls a rumour he heard as a child which persists, but is unknown even to many of the show people who attend the fair: People know the myth of 'danger night.' The Hoppings – the myths and mud of Europe's biggest travelling fair 2012-06-28T06:00:00Z

Gaiman’s reworking of myths and legends has resulted in plenty of gentler tales. The Essential Neil Gaiman 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

The film focuses on Josephat Torner, an albino activist who travels through the country challenging that myth spread by witch doctors. Critic’s Notebook: The Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2013-06-12T22:54:26Z

The Broadway Bares routines, which are three to four minutes long, convey a mini narrative, and have been inspired by things like Greek myths and board games. Velcro or Snaps? The ABC’s of Stripping for a Cause 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

But the businesses that have introduced the Latino characters say they are sensitive to the history of the myths. Halloween getting Latino characters 2011-10-17T16:19:32Z

The myth of exceptionalism still holds most Americans in its thrall. An American century of carnage: Measuring violence in a single superpower world 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

Everyone knows the myth of how their Blue Monday single lost money despite being the best selling 12in of all-time, because of the cost of its sleeve. Joyless divisions: the end of New Order 2011-07-14T20:44:01Z

And, more than any other living dramatist, he has demolished the myth that American drama is exclusively concerned with personal crises. Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified' 2011-08-15T20:31:01Z

And she's not the only Latino myth infiltrating the autumn celebration of all things scary and gory. Halloween getting Latino characters 2011-10-17T16:19:32Z

The Duke was part of the collective memories of the fans — our shared history, our myth, our lore. The Score: A Pitch for New Music 2011-05-11T22:38:37Z

By contrast, where the power of myth was not at work, prices were merely back to normal in Sotheby’s session. 2010-02-07T05:26:00Z

Even the myths that the studios and stars want to tell about themselves reveal hidden truths, about what women in another time wished for, and the dreams Hollywood sold them with each ticket. Photoplay magazine: the birth of celebrity culture 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

Clash of the Titans: 'A Greek myth garnished with 3D bells and whistles' 5. A date with Steve Carell and Tina Fey 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z

“Oedipus and the Sphinx After Ingres” updates an ancient myth with help from one of Bacon’s favorite artists. ‘Francis Bacon: Late Paintings,’ at Gagosian, Is a Vivid Narrative 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

If you read ancient myths, plays, or histories this is the kind of thing that comes up again and again. How university trigger warnings will backfire: Does Fox News need any more ammunition against the humanities? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Which just goes to show you what a myth New York is, or as Truman Capote called it, “a diamond iceberg.” T Magazine: The Ring Cycle 2011-11-28T15:00:57Z

It provides a detailed account of his willful efforts to try to make a deal with Hitler and refutes some persistent myths. Books of The Times: David Nasaw’s ‘Patriarch,’ on Joseph P. Kennedy 2012-11-29T21:09:38Z

I’ve already told you the spoiler, that the myth ends in death. Love, Trust and Heartbreak on Two Stages 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

“Vinegar Tom,” which is a feminist take on witch hunting in scarie Olde England, has been paired with Howard Barker’s “Judith: A Parting From the Body,” another consideration of woman as myth. Review: ‘Vinegar Tom’ and ‘Judith’ Examine Woman as Myth 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

College, too, “shimmered into myth” — being initiated into a secret society, buying V.S.O.P. cognac with a fake ID, dancing, drunkenly, while her strapless dress fell to her waist. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

A boy raised on myth, who realized its power to disorient and corrupt, is not about to play fast and loose in the realm of memory.  Books of The Times: A Newsman?s Family, Missing in Action 2011-03-24T21:19:26Z

You can learn a lot about Momo by tracing the ways her myth has been reformulated for the culture in which it’s spreading. Momo Is as Real as We’ve Made Her 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z

“My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth,” he writes in the memoir. Eddie Huang Defies Description 2013-01-23T22:59:19Z

“We prefer the myth of meritocracy to an arbitrary rule of exclusion.” ‘The Gilded Age’ Finally Arrives on HBO 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

White sees the malleability of the myth as an advantage. Looking for Robin 2010-04-14T07:00:00Z

The myths of common sense and conventional wisdom were challenged; pop narratives and legends that were largely untold in certain nations were now shared in borderless populations. Belle and Sebastian's first fans connected online before the trolls arrived 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z

The wreck she is diving into, in the very strong title poem, is the wreck of obsolete myths, particularly myths about men and women. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

“Frank does not so much puncture the Truman myth as let out just enough air to settle the man back to earth,” James Traub writes in his review. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

His earlier poems reflect the formal style of the time and are influenced by classical myths, biblical stories and medieval poetry and ballads. Why W.S. Merwin endures, and other best poetry to read this month 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

The result is a steady diet of what I call “friendship myths”: find a best friend, and keep her forever. From BFF to 'Friend Divorce:' The 5 Truths We Must Teach Our Daughters About Friendship 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Varda is a director of a startling originality, for whom the New Wave was already a modern myth to confront. The Photographs That Helped “Breathless” Start a Revolution 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

He described his next project, “Las Mimosas,” which he said would deal with Moroccan caravans, the myth of Faust and a Sufi wise man, as an “idealistic film about the absurdity of idealism.” Oliver Laxe?s Morocco Film ?You All Are Captains? 2011-10-16T04:10:13Z

Doing this not only fills in the blanks of who he is, it reveals Terry as an exemplar of the American bootstrapping myth who learns how the game is played – by being cheated. In comedy "Rutherford Falls," Ed Helms is a nice guy who prefers the myth of his whitewashed history 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

The busting of that second myth points a finger squarely in our direction as parents, and as the wielders of the grocery budget. Motherlode Blog: Debunking Sugar-Consumption Myths 2012-03-20T15:23:52Z

With stark walls and craggy cliffs, Langley and the Sierra Nevada embody the myth of the West, providing backdrops for Hopalong Cassidy B-Westerns and dozens of others, as well as adventure. Explorer: Facing Fear, With Family, in the Sierras 2013-09-05T13:00:28Z

More than 100 pieces will be shown in all, including the French Symbolist Gustave Moreau’s lavishly painted renderings of religious and pagan myths. What's On This Week Around the World 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

There's always such a danger with families," says Swinton, "this myth that members of one family represent each other and carry some kind of collective identity. Tilda Swinton and Luca Guadagnino: a match made in arthouse cinema heaven 2010-04-01T21:30:00Z

The hunch proved right: Just 16 months after an exploratory meeting, their first opera, a miniaturized retelling of the Pied Piper myth called “Into the Little Hill,” was onstage in London. Opera’s Perfectionist Tries to Follow His Masterpiece 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

“The reality of Britain is vibrant multiculturalism, but the myth we export is an all-white world of lords and ladies,” wrote actor and rapper Riz Ahmed in the Guardian last year. The Handmaid's Tale's race problem 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

"I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt." Michelle Paver heads for ancient Greece 2012-08-26T08:20:09Z

Given his ability to create unforgettable characters such as Tuor and classical good-versus-evil myths, it’s no surprise these stories remain so massively popular. Review | J.R.R. Tolkien’s latest posthumous book may actually be the last 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

The dangerously ambitious Abbott, too, feeds the myth of the D.C. swamp monster. Lies, leaks and threats to our liberties: A new thriller captures the moment 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

I am not really surprised by the Women Against Feminism thing because I already knew that some women think “the pay gap is a myth” and that feminism “demonizes traditional family constructs.” Hey, “women against feminism”: Feminism still has your back so you’re welcome 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. Julian Barnes 2013-03-30T07:00:25Z

The myths are retold too, in children’s cartoons and comic books. Film: India?s Epic Poems, Resonating in Modern Lives 2010-07-04T05:11:00Z

One of the biggest myths of his profession, Gleeson says, is the amount of time spent on artistic endeavors. The man responsible for all the details you probably don’t even notice 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

The second is a sanitized myth: the father of the nation, the global icon beloved by everyone from the purveyors of global humanitarian platitudes to even the erstwhile enemies of the African National Congress. Nelson Mandela vs. his hagiography 2013-12-21T16:30:00Z

Her hacking cough may trigger Covid anxieties, but her nickname evokes a much older disease, tied to the birth of the myth of the vampire. Why the Vampire Myth Won’t Die 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z

The original myth of Icarus is more daunting and resonant than anything here, which was all perfectly enjoyable twaddle. I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky; Icarus at the Edge of Time; Don Giovanni 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

Like Frazer and other theorists of myth, Harryhausen sees all mythologies as comparable. Ray Harryhausen matched JMW Turner for special effects genius 2013-05-08T12:47:49Z

For my father, the family was a myth. A Writer’s “Tomb of Words,” and the People Who Took It Personally 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

As the story ticks on, the filmmakers put Cal and Erin’s unhappiness into play with ideas about identity, power, patriarchy and the myth of the west. ‘Montana Story’ Review: A Domestic Drama in Big Sky Country 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

Then the first week of class we talk about the race concept itself and how race is a biological myth. Professor targeted by right for teaching course on “white racism”: “These folks are delusio... 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The modern culture surrounding squats is not without its own hero myths. Learning to Squat 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

“The myth that Flaubert was a backward child is convincingly demolished,” Heather Ingman wrote in The Guardian. Herbert Lottman, Biographer of French Figures, Dies at 87 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Atheist states based around myth and ritual are not hard to find. If we are to cope with climate change we need a new moral order 2012-08-21T07:30:01Z

Bazzett’s verse translation of the Mayan creation myth grants contemporary readers access to one of the few epics indigenous to the Americas. New & Noteworthy 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Humanity has adapted and having vision is only a myth. "Invasion" and 5 other great Apple TV+ shows to watch on New Year’s Eve 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

The 2007 film Teeth flipped the myth around in a tale of a high school student who discovers a secret weapon against male violation. Seven crazy myths about the female anatomy 2012-08-24T13:37:00Z

“This is from the man who dismantled the myth that his great ancestor, Antoine Peychaud, invented the cocktail. What is that if not copyright work?” A Cocktail Writer’s Life: The Pentagon by Day, a Barstool by Night 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

It's also the story of a woman falling head over heels with the myth of great romantic love. The Thrill of Love – review 2013-02-27T18:06:27Z

Here are the two sides of the myth: the obscure martyr unsoiled by commercial success; and the unbridled genius who can’t help but have it all. Why Is a Day Job Seen as the Mark of an Artist’s Failure? 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z

But, Mr. Darnton cautions in one of many insightful observations, “living a myth is a dangerous business, because fiction is not a solid foundation on which to build a family’s life.” Books of The Times: A Newsman?s Family, Missing in Action 2011-03-24T21:19:26Z

Among May's streaming movies is "The Vast of Night," director Andrew Patterson's nifty 1950s sci-fi mystery that "operates on the frequency caught between logic and myth." Amazon's "Vast of Night" is a Richard Linklater, sci-fi, "All the President's Men" thriller mash-up 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

Or maybe she was created by an ace team of marketers led by Grant’s father, depending on which equally depressing creation myth you believed. ‘Ultraviolence’ is the set of songs Lana Del Rey was invented to sing

For once a melodrama with pulp origins convinces viewers that it can be the modern equivalent to Greek myths or a Jonathan Swift satire. TIME's Review of The Dark Knight Rises: To the Depths, To the Heights 2012-07-16T16:59:05Z

Of course, there’s sort of a myth about the hedonistic culture of the ’80s. ‘I remember thinking, ugh, this is bad’: Scenes from teenage party life in the ’80s 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

The result of all this is a defiance of the author myth – the idea of the all-seeing, all-knowing individual talent. Fernando Pessoa and the multiple faces we show on the net 2010-12-04T10:00:00Z

Jarecki: We all have this creation myth where America is young and beautiful, and it's like we forget that genocided the Native American. Documentary “The King”: “The American people are Elvis. They have been hoodwinked” 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice” may be based on the Greek myth of a singer capable of beguiling even hell’s furies, but the opera has long been catnip to choreographers. Joffrey Ballet dazzles in L.A. Opera's 'Orpheus and Eurydice' 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

We have this myth that we're a mixed breed, and all different races, but the diversity in smaller in a fancy restaurant and if you go to a favela it's the reverse. Netflix's existential "Shine Your Eyes" searches for a man who "inhabits the world of fiction" 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

There is a class of facts — it would be more accurate to call them myths or shibboleths — that everybody knows and nobody entirely believes. Are the Movies Liberal? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Tender and affable though the sendup was, the myth being evoked — that of the rugged individualist galloping to the world’s rescue — remains as politically potent as any in America. Iowa’s Heartland Beyond the Campaign Trail 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

“They made such an impression on me,” she says, likening their plots about monsters in human form, and otherwise, to the stories of ancient myth. ‘Babadook’ director Jennifer Kent talks about women making horror movies 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Indiana Jones himself would agree that some stories are better left as myths. Four Secrets About ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

The myth inspired Virginia Hamilton’s classic children’s book, “The People Could Fly” in 1985, and other artists. Afrofuturist Room at the Met Redresses a Racial Trauma 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

“We wanted to foster dialogues about the myths and tropes of the male-dominated Modernist canon that Picasso exemplifies,” the curator added. Hannah Gadsby’s Picasso Show Was Meant to Ignite Debate. And It Did. 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

The reason is this: epublishing is inextricably tied to the structures of social media marketing and the myth that social media functions as a way of selling products. Why social media isn't the magic bullet for self-epublished authors 2012-07-30T14:46:59Z

She says the Greek myths are far from dusty old stories — but vibrant and present. Podcast ‘Live from Mount Olympus’ readies for new adventure 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

Great films that initially suffered derision and box-office disaster are a standard part of cinema myth. What the F? How Mother! joined the 'bad movie' club 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

“The idea that there are exactly two approaches to usage — all the traditional rules must be followed, or else anything goes — is the sticklers’ founding myth,” he says. Can something be totally unique? Steven Pinker’s new book says yes.

He was conveying not the coherent myth of the American century, but its unruly shadow. Geoff Dyer Takes to the Streets With Garry Winogrand 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Alternating between sass and sincerity, Baumane methodically identifies the origins of these myths and then traces how they pinball Zelma through a series of agonies and ecstasies. ‘My Love Affair With Marriage’ Review: A Tale of Love and Loss 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z

Although children may never have heard of the Greek myths in this hourlong production, they will understand Geppetto’s frustration at being unable to recapture what he’s lost. Spare Times for Children for June 21-27 2013-06-20T23:01:28Z

Winehouse's death, an unfortunate but unsurprising end to a long, public decline, might be best remembered not just as another tragic loss but as a modern portrait of how untrue those rock myths really are. Winehouse among music talents gone too soon 2011-07-24T11:51:14Z

White also says that, while roofies aren’t a myth, studies suggest the fear outpaces the incidence. My drinking years: ‘Everyone has blackouts, don’t they?’ 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

I visited Quito, Ecuador’s capital, as well as three of the islands, where I met quite a few budget travelers, dispelling the myth that the Galápagos are only for the rich. In the Footsteps of Charles Darwin 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

He relates how earlier anthropologists exploded the myth of some single universal underlying the diversity of all cultures. Faith and Reasons: Two Authors Explore the Persistence of Religious Feeling 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

But none of them has generated a myth with serious international popularity, let alone one that can compare, even faintly, with the fortunes of the North American cowboy. The myth of the cowboy 2013-03-20T18:00:01Z

And since I was writing for a public hooked on Bond and desperate for the antidote, the myth stuck. John le Carré: 'I was a secret even to myself' 2013-04-12T20:01:01Z

Children’s books, she once said, are “the key to the accumulated wisdom, wit, gossip, truth, myth, history, philosophy, and recipes for salting potatoes during the past 6,000 years of civilization.” E. L. Konigsburg, Author, Is Dead at 83 2013-04-23T02:33:47Z

But most of all, they've fixed their attention on this enduring myth, which was old even when Ovid decided to fashion a version of it. Little Bulb: natural born lyres 2013-03-27T08:00:06Z

The new exhibition records the process by which the occupant of 221B Baker Street became a modern-day myth, at times straying far from what Conan Doyle wrote in 56 short stories and four novels. The changing face of Sherlock Holmes 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

A. I am a great lover of art and classical history and myths. Vatican Art in a Gay Light 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

Against their illustrative realism and patriotic myth making, Marin sought an equivalence between the energy of nature and the formal and material vitality of painting. Art Review: Testing the Waters of Abstraction 2011-08-04T22:02:30Z

It recalled another film using American disintegration as the backdrop for myth, 2009's Winter's Bone; together, they suggested a new sub-genre, the American Exotic, shaping flinty myth from forays into the American subcontinent. Brits in Spandex and girl power: movie trends that will keep us talking in 2013 2013-01-03T16:35:05Z

She also sets a new art-historical standard, undermining the romantic myth of the outsider as unknowable miracle worker by examining Traylor’s achievement in stunning detail. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Dracula, itself drawing on older myths of werewolves and tales of bloodthirsty Slavic demons, spawned a long line of vampire literature. Warm Bodies: what our love affair with zombies says about us 2013-02-08T15:00:05Z

That means Gi-hun followed every line of in the bootstrapping myth to the letter by working hard and playing by the rules, and he ends up in serious hock anyway. The allure of Netflix's brutal "Squid Game" owes a debt to our predatory upbringing 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z

The myths and lies that middle class and other privileged white folks tell themselves about America and reality are very evocative of the movie “Forrest Gump.” Walter Mosley on the fantasy of Whiteness and how Dubya was worse than Trump 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

But higher levels of mestizaje, or racial mixing, have led to national myths of racial democracy that cover up histories of segregation, inequality and discrimination. Ballroom Takes Root in Colombia. But Who Is It For? 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

Beyoncé’s trip feels like a search for confirmation: a living myth roving terrain where myths were made. Beyoncé’s ‘Black Is King’: Let’s Discuss 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

Procrustes, in Greek myth, was the cruel owner of an estate in Attica who abducted travellers and cut off their heads to ensure they fitted his bed perfectly. Taleb service 2010-12-21T09:52:09Z

Her quest, apart from a lot of swimming in the cold, is to explore the relationship between people and water, how it has made its mark on myth and legend and inspired artists and writers. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-08-03T07:00:00Z

Let There Be Light exposed the warrior myth for the corrosive lie that it was. My streaming gem: why you should watch Let There Be Light 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

I'm not against using myth or history, and obviously I'm aware that both can have relevance to me and to now. Mark-Anthony Turnage: A life in music 2011-01-22T07:59:00Z

But what's so remarkable about this show, as the title declares, is its emphasis on Gauguin as maker of myths, narratives and tall stories, notably his own well-burnished legend. Gauguin: Maker of Myth 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z

But, he said, exploring the Grateful Dead demanded that he draw on the same storyteller instincts, “where you feel there’s a yawning gap between the myth and the reality.” Grateful Dead Documentary: A Four-Hour Jam on Jerry Garcia’s World 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

The show is a retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, dividing its time between the world above and the world below. Bringing Broadway Spectacle Back to Life 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

It also reinforces the myth that college is appropriate or even possible for all students. Free college isn’t the solution: How the push for “college for all” sets up students to fail 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

The man, the myth and the mustache are all here, albeit modestly. ‘Dalíland’ Review: Landscape With Vipers 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

But it is a myth that photography ever had an age of innocence. The fake photographs that predate Photoshop 2012-08-29T08:44:53Z

His coverage was not a matter of mere whim or the fostering of myth. John B. Fairchild, Women’s Wear Daily publisher, dies at 87 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

The science results in the book’s signature “myth busting” segments. 7 new reasons to fire up your smokers this summer 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

The "kids just pick it up" myth vastly understates the time and exposure needed to learn a foreign language. Making Language Immersion Fun for the Kids 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

So I thought, why not do something really in the style of Korngold, like Richard Strauss' 'Don Juan,' based on a Spanish myth? At SSO, Jesús López-Cobos to lead Spanish-influenced program 2012-05-31T20:19:05Z

The project began when Turroni, 59, a writer and former tenor, approached Sciarrino with a draft libretto based on a version of the Venus and Adonis myth by the Italian Baroque poet Giambattista Marino. An Opera Composer of Intimate Spareness Returns to Myth 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

This penultimate opera by Strauss conflates two myths: Jupiter’s attempted seduction of the lovely Danae, and the story of Midas, the king with the problematic golden touch. A Salzburg Festival Rich With Dreams and Power 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

I imagined that Coates’s new book would make plain for young people what is truly at stake in the struggle and disabuse them of the prevailing myths that breed complacency, defeatism or inaction. Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’ 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

In Norse myth and Marvel Comics, a rainbow bridge links Asgard and Earth. In the galleries: From destruction, a call for transformation 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Diamond mining isn’t the only business built on a lie, though the industry’s central myth — that diamonds are scarce and therefore extremely valuable — has to be among the most brazen. Pigeons: Nuisance Animals, or Expert Accomplices in Diamond Smuggling? 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

This is certainly not a subversion of the myth of L.K.Y., but I do think we are getting away with something. Singapore’s History Put to Song 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

As we witness both the documentary’s subjects — and its director — navigate a shocking development in real time, a quietly probing film emerges that pierces the myth of American meritocracy. ‘Accepted’ Review: Reaching for the Stars, Seeing Them Dissolve 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

Inspired by the old Corsican brothers story, it's essentially a Greek tragedy rewritten in a modern, musical vein, and it taps into familiar stories from myth and fairytale. This week's new theatre 2013-01-12T06:00:19Z

That’s why it became, in myths about African American bluesmen, the place where a guitarist might sell his soul to the devil. In the galleries: D.C. artist summons the supernatural in the everyday 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

And in both works, the drama lies in the breaking down of their authority: the revelation of an archetype, a myth, a goddess who is also a woman. Two Operas, Two Sopranos, Two Very Different Impacts 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

Among his early pieces was the first scene of an opera based on the Perseus myth. A Pianist Adapts to Life With Parkinson’s Disease 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

Gadsby punctures the myth of the great man and his sacred reputation, pondering the treasures we will now never have from those clobbered in their wake. Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette”: The stunning Netflix special that made Louis C.K.’s comedy irr... 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

"It's not so much a true story as a true myth," says Cave. Nick Cave: 'Lawless is not so much a true story as a true myth' 2012-08-25T23:05:50Z

“Something of the myth has to be preserved.” Femme Fatale, Fallen Woman, Spy: Looking for the Real Mata Hari 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Scorsese deployed rigorous storyboarding, 35mm film and seven cameramen, including the cinematographers behind Easy Rider, Deliverance and his own Taxi Driver, to give a fraught and patchy concert the golden glow of myth. From the Band to Beyoncé: concert films to fill the live music black hole 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z

Modern Britain is in need of myths and legends – and no matter how badly they messed up last time, the Stone Roses can help. Why I won't be going to see the Stone Roses, by John Harris 2012-06-22T23:15:00Z

This book takes apart the myths that surround the subject. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

He dispels the myth that Molaison existed in a sort of nirvana, serenely content in the present. No more memories 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

In a genre that’s been perpetually drawn to American myth and open plains, “Concrete Cowboy” is urban, contemporary and authentic. ‘Concrete Cowboy’ shows Philadelphia’s Black cowboy culture 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

Whether Hitchcock intended any particular allegory in that scene — he claimed the film was intended purely as an entertainment — it effectively dramatizes the idea that national myths are not to be looked at too closely. Perspective | Mount Rushmore is colossal kitsch, perfect for a populist spectacle 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z

The actor is sturdy stuff, an articulate and appealingly sincere warrior in a tale well-told, a myth well-made. Myth and mirth take the stage at Oregon Shakespeare fest 2012-07-19T21:29:02Z

This is true of Billy the Kid, so it’s probably time to deconstruct his myth and restore him to human authenticity. Billy the Kid died young, but the myth can’t be killed 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

Charlotte Wilcox, who illustrated the posters in the exhibit, said it was her job to “be as inclusive as possible” in bringing these myths to life. There Is a Vagina Museum in London 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

Harvey's musical language proved equally adaptable to the dark, charged intensity of the Wagnerian menage, and the bright realm of the Buddhist myth. Jonathan Harvey obituary 2012-12-05T21:16:32Z

But as for the myth itself, whether I was “trying” to or not, honestly, I wasn’t thinking about anything at all. Greg Jackson on the Dialogue Between Myth and Reality 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

“This is just propaganda and a myth we brought on ourselves.” Ditched the Dye During Covid? Maybe Stay Gray. 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

As a child he played on the hill under which local legend says an army of knights sleep, guarded by a wizard until they are needed – a myth that became the basis for Weirdstone. Alan Garner: a life in books 2012-08-17T21:45:03Z

Ad hoc gatekeepers of the Talland House myth, they were poring over a map of the property from 1906 and historical photos, which showed a smaller and less imposing house. In Search of Virginia Woolf’s Lost Eden in Cornwall 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

To those unschooled in the genre, romance seems to celebrate the Prince Charming myth: tall, handsome hero riding in on white horse to save the heroine. Heroines save their heroes in the best new romance novels 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Fantasy and historical fiction and myth here run together with the Matter of Britain, in a novel that’s easy to admire, to respect and to enjoy, but difficult to love. Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Buried Giant’ 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

His books since include a trivia almanac, a debunking of myths passed down to children, and a book about how comedy has come to dominate culture. James Holzhauer Is Dominating ‘Jeopardy!’ But What’s Life Like After the Show? 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

This may sound like it’s about semantics, but for many women, the myths around bisexuality have an impact on how their lives and relationships play out. Yes, bisexuality is real 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

Collectively, they constitute a foil against the persistent myth that Muslim women are simpering sorts awaiting rescue. These Are the Faces of Muslim Women Throughout History 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

A. She’s Arthur’s half sister and a fantastically significant character in the myth, and in this version of “Camelot,” what’s interesting for me is exploring the parallels between Arthur and Morgan. Television/The Web: An Arthur Worthy of the Modern Ages 2011-02-20T02:00:56Z

Each of those contributions has its own little creation myth, and Bruder unearths as many as possible to help us better understand this extraordinary music. Perspective | With ‘R&B in DC 1940-1960,’ historian Jay Bruder reacquaints us with the sounds of a vanished Washington 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

Before going further, let’s dispel the myth that these research results are due to a handful of poorly constructed studies. Homework is wrecking our kids: The research is clear, let’s ban elementary homework 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

That turned into a permanent kiosk, and the lines grew to Hot Doug’s-level lengths, and the sight of that helped build Shake Shack’s myth and reputation. Review: Chicago's first Shake Shack 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

Her new book is bravely situated in Afghanistan itself, eroding the myth of the good occupier and of what is termed in the novel “kind power.” A Novel Set in Afghanistan Challenges the Myth of the Good Occupier 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

And Mr. Reeves understood the charisma that transformed Kennedy from man to martyr to myth. Richard Reeves, Columnist and Author on Presidents, Dies at 83 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

GREENWICH, Conn. — For a press-wary paranoiac, the artist Dash Snow towed around an immense burden of public myth during his short lifetime. Recalling the Outlaw Eye of Dash Snow 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Made In Heaven Mark Bruce has carved himself out an imaginative niche articulating modern dramas through ancient myth, fairytales and the subconscious. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-05-25T23:05:26Z

“After many other versions, a century and a half later Gluck called on the myth again for his reformation of the art form.” Gluck’s revolution: Pacific MusicWorks performs ‘Orphée,’ an opera by Marie Antoinette’s music teacher 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Ms Secrest’s incisive, sympathetic life demonstrates great skill in unpicking the web of myths that Schiaparelli wove to reveal the shape of the woman beneath. Nonparelli 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

It’s the most popular and enduring myth in classical music. Perspective | ‘More like a festival’: How classical competitions are reinventing themselves 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

This further reinforced the “model minority myth” of Asian American students as stellar accomplishers with an almost supernatural ability to overcome all odds and pull themselves up by their bootstraps to achieve the American Dream. The dangerous myth of “The Triple Package”: What Amy Chua gets wrong about Asian-American communities 2014-02-13T17:37:00Z

And like many great westerns it critiques some of the genre’s foundational myths with bracing, beautiful rigor, including the myth of heroic individualism. ‘First Cow’ Review: The Milk of Human Kindness 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

The majority of what's in the play is true, although certain elements are based on myths about Satie - some of those myths being of Satie's own creation. Erik and Me: Alistair McGowan on Satie 2013-07-12T17:30:08Z

And then what if, 50 years on, à la “The King and I,” that chance encounter became the stuff of myth, the basis of a blockbuster musical in China? 2 Tony Winners Try to Upend Rodgers and Hammerstein 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

As his audience bounced on brass beds, he knocked all sorts of myths off their Doric pedestals. Safe Mode in Milan 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

And in a rundown of 10 common wine myths, she takes aim at “Pink wines and sweet wines are for women” with a simple “puh-lease.” The easygoing guide for wine drinkers who don’t go all in 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

When Sarah Linden, the homicide detective on the case, confronts him on the Orpheus issue, Richmond offers up an explanation of the Greek myth in response. ArtsBeat: The 'Killing' Finale: Clearer Than You Thought 2011-06-20T17:49:34Z

"After reading Joe Hill's cult book, I couldn't resist temptation to dive into the devilish underworld and reinvent a universal myth," said Aja. Daniel Radcliffe to grow Horns for new role 2012-07-16T11:47:48Z

She dismantles the myth of the American West, or, rather, builds it up by adding faces and stories that have often been missing from the picture. A Haunting Debut Novel Brings New Faces to the Myth of the American West 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

“Ailuran,” he adds, is just the prequel to an ambitious planned trilogy that will span 9,000 years of human myth: “It’s hands-down the most challenging work the Cabiri has ever done.” The Cabiri’s new show: were-cats and creation myth 2013-08-02T19:56:04Z

“Ruby Sparks,” an ingenious and delightful variation on the Pygmalion myth, toys whimsically with these questions, as the initially perfect relationship between a neurotic author and his sprung-to-life fictional creation goes through changes. Movie Review: ‘Ruby Sparks,’ Written by and Starring Zoe Kazan 2012-07-24T21:46:52Z

No one wants to hear the same old snake-and-apple routine we’ve all heard a thousand times before, but Cosmos could definitely give “equal time” to a creation myth while making it entertaining and educational. “Cosmic” meltdown! Neil deGrasse Tyson under siege from Christian right 2014-04-04T12:00:00Z

Ms. Benali is a maker of her own myths: songwriter, singer, dancer, visual artist. Music Review: Ghalia Benali at French Institute Alliance Française 2013-05-16T21:42:33Z

In it, this future archbishop proves that there’s no way to be absolutely sure that Napoleon, who was then still alive, wasn’t actually a myth. Review | All the books in my 300 boxes sparked joy. The lockdown made me rethink why I was keeping them. 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

Hence, Browning named his suit after the myth. Watch: This British man invented a real-life flying Iron Man suit 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

I spoke with Williams by phone about the myth of the perfect pair, growing bra sizes and toxic breast milk. A night at the vibrator museum 2012-05-20T00:00:00Z

But Partridge omits other facts about Vietnam that run against certain American exceptionalist myths, like the Eisenhower administration’s scotching of elections to reunify South and North Vietnam in 1956. How Do We Tell a New Generation of Teenagers About the Vietnam War? 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Hawley designs this particular "true" story to speak to the hypocrisy of the melting pot myth by bringing two sets of othered people, immigrants and native-born Americans descended from Africans forced into slavery. "I was never going to use the N-word": "Fargo" seeks to examine our racist past without new injury 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z

It turns replication into a form of rethinking about art past and present, and about how myths are made. Critic’s Notebook: Prada Foundation Remounts a 1969 Exhibition 2013-08-13T21:52:42Z

OK, so what myths are we talking about? What's The King's Speech's secret weapon of mass adulation? 2011-02-22T16:45:41Z

“It’s all just a myth, really,” he says of moving to the capital. How SInger-Songwriter Dan Croll Is Shaping the ‘New’ Liverpool Sound 2013-04-10T17:00:12Z

It’s too bad that “The Lost City” isn’t more ambitious, because a woman writing her dreams into reality is a potentially rich riff on the Pygmalion and Galatea myth. ‘The Lost City’ Review: Raiders of the 1980s Blockbusters 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

I was never really into myths and stuff. Pass notes, No 2,955: Ulysses 2011-04-06T19:00:02Z

Bruce Springsteen’s song lyrics have injected more drama and mystery into the myths of the American road than any figure since Jack Kerouac. Bruce Springsteen’s Memoir: Riding Shotgun With the Boss 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

When I first learned about my great uncle, Abe Feller, he had been dead by suicide for many years, his story bronzed into family myth. Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

“The Brink” offers no new information or insights to deepen this myth. Another Documentary Inadvertently Honors Steve Bannon 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

It’s not exactly edible, and it may make you a bit queasy, but its deadliness is a myth. 25 “facts” that really aren’t: You’ve heard them all your life and they just aren’t true 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

Dispel the myth by showing them something they haven't seen before. "Have more Asian friends": James Shen reflects on Hollywood, activism & new series "Run the World" 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z

It was found again in 1981, and an ensemble of electric guitars, voices, synthesisers, brass, harp and percussion, conducted by BBC presenter Charles Hazlewood, are here recreating and amplifying its menace and myths. The Passion of Joan of Arc/Utley/Gregory 2010-05-11T21:35:00Z

Superhero films love origin myths, elaborate retro sequences from the past and all-around ancestor worship. Critics assemble: our writers pick their favorite superhero films 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

The same publisher, Mathew Carey, wrote letters with Thomas Jefferson and employed the bookseller who went on to write the George Washington biography that established the cherry tree myth. All the Presidents Penned 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z

Her research, she explained over the phone, demonstrates that there are a lot of myths out there “that abortion is dangerous, that it’s physically risky, that it leads to depression, that it leads to infertility.” Baby born clutching IUD? Free abortion vacations? Nope — but such urban legends are very useful to the right 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

The book world, swarmed as it has been with vampires since Stoker popularized the myth, has gone bonkers with bloodsuckers since Meyer published "Twilight" in 2005. Entertainment biz fangful for vampires 2010-08-25T10:34:00Z

But The Velvet Rage is not fiction: it addresses the myth of gay pride and, after three decades of post-Aids concentration on gay men's physical health, turns inward to their mental wellbeing. Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z

This family-friendly show features a range of paintings and other artistic renderings of animals from Islamic myth. Cannes Festival Begins and Chinese Artists Head to Sydney: Global Arts Guide 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

“Whereas we now have fairly detailed knowledge of the myths and circumcision rituals of exotic tribes,” they wrote, “we remain relatively ignorant of the details of equivalent activity among tribes of scientists.” Bruno Latour, Philosopher on the Social Basis of Scientific Facts, Dies at 74 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

From beach to museum, church to market, Rio is a city constantly defying its own myths and encourages visitors to join in with unbridled enthusiasm. 36 Hours in Rio de Janeiro 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

Why we like him: Shot in the cabins, dusty roads and swamps of the Mississippi Delta, his elegiac film installation Crossroads from 2009 sees Blandy pursue the myths surrounding blues legend Robert Johnson. Artist of the week 107: David Blandy 2010-09-29T15:01:00Z

Andrikou made it clear, however, that the lines between myth and history remain blurry at best. Savoring the mythic Aegean on a small-ship cruise in Greece 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

And in doing so they do a lot to dispel a few myths about wags. Last night's TV 2010-05-17T07:00:00Z

It may be a myth, but it couldn't hurt. To Find Cheap Flights, the Day (Kind of) Matters 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Like many musicals aimed at younger audiences, this modern spoof of ancient myths recorded a cast album well before it got to Broadway in 2019. What Is the Sound of a Theater Season Interrupted? 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

Commissioned by the Gate's artistic director Christopher Haydon, Bird immersed herself in Greek myths and tried to approach them with a fresh eye. Trojan tragedy goes modern 2012-11-15T06:55:18Z

He said in a statement released by Quinnipiac that he wants to help students develop their own visions without being hindered by the industry's myths and roadblocks. Noted film producer signs on as Quinnipiac mentor 2011-07-09T13:46:15Z

It was one of the moments in which Venturi and Scott Brown, to their detriment, seemed to believe their own myth. Remembering Robert Venturi, the Close Reader of Architecture 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

This discomfort turned out to be a poetically appropriate prologue to what followed: a sung narration of New York history rendered as a myth that considers urban violence and spiritual transcendence. Paul Simon?s ?Capeman? in Central Park 2010-08-17T22:01:00Z

Photograph: HBO This is not after all the gangster milieu as fully formed myth. Empire state of mind 2011-01-20T07:57:00Z

They held contests to create a story, a song and an artwork that would revise the myth, “with St. George and the Dragon working it out rather than killing,” Ms. McCarthy said. Spare Times for Children for April 24-30 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

By giving the Eames office rank and file their curtain call, it usefully explodes idea of the designer as a solitary genius, which has always been a myth. There's no I in Eames 2010-10-26T09:47:00Z

After all, anthropology is a science, and a creation myth segment could be a great way to introduce the way scientists study ancient cultures. “Cosmic” meltdown! Neil deGrasse Tyson under siege from Christian right 2014-04-04T12:00:00Z

The general notion of “First Man” is to offer a corrective to the myth of the passive astronaut, the idea that American space explorers were merely strapped in, sent up, photo-opped, and brought home. “First Man,” Reviewed: Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong Bio-Pic Is an Accidental Right-Wing Fetish Object 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

According to Persian myth, a Peri is a fallen angel; a beautiful, mystical being equally capable of great good or great evil. LPO Music in the Courtyard - programme notes 2012-08-29T21:53:45Z

The idea that there are too many projects that can possibly be financed is a myth, said Reynold Levy, the former president of Lincoln Center. How Do You Raise $3.47 Billion? Ask These Guys. 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

The Harry Potter books are a mishmash of myths ancient and modern, pulling in everything from Dickens to Wagner, the New Testament to Superman, with Harry as Christ, King Arthur and Clark Kent. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 ? review 2011-07-16T23:05:55Z