Myths

New research finds that hangovers result from heavy drinking, no matter the combination of beverages.

Unlike myths, superhero sagas suggest that justice is actually attainable.

A story of mythological birds and a murder near the sacred Shiprock volcano in northwest New Mexico.

Thousands of pounds of rocks stolen from Hawaii are returned by mail to the island each year because former tourists fear their fortunes have been reversed by a wrathful goddess. What makes the myth so powerful?

And why it doesn't really matter if he was 500 years too late.

New books, movies, and plays keep spilling out of the perennial wellspring of Oz. Each reveals a facet of that fabled land—and of the generation that produces the work.