” I see you. I see all who men call monsters.” This is the newest novel by Natalie Haynes, whose other recent books A Thousand Ships and Pandora’s Jar I also read this year. This is a novel and is structured more or less like A Thousand Ships, which takes on the broadest view of a given myth (in that book The Iliad) and tells it from multiple perspectives, not necessarily tackling the narrative in strict order. You can guess from the title and the […]

“Sing, Muse, he sings, and the edge in his voice makes it clear that this is not a request.” I tend to shy away from modern retellings of fairy tales for reasons I’ve discussed in other reviews, but I really enjoy retellings of myths (though I like the straight retellings of them within their own context more than modern renderings of them in contemporary contexts). The difference I think is that I took a class in college reading myth as literature, and even though in […]