Half human, half beast characters have been present in popular mythology for thousands of years, and likely will be for thousands more.
Tomó su nombre de pila del animal legendario —mitad águila y mitad león— cuya estatua adorna las pagodas indochinas. Literature The half eagle, or five-dollar gold piece, of 1822 is one of the rarest coins in the world. La Media Águila, una pieza de oro del mil ochocientos ...
Anjali Sachdeva notes, “As González’s characters navigate a world where plants inspire revolution and animals are possessed by homicidal rage, they ask us to consider whether human beings are perhaps the least natural creatures this planet has to offer.” (Zoë) The Upstairs House by Julia...
Few things are as simultaneously prosaic and mysterious as the human face, and Namwali Serpell examines the literary, cultural, mythological, and biological nature of that very window to the soul which. From the disfigured face of John “The Elephant Man” Merrick to the contemporary politics of...