Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about an old mystery: what has or hasn't happened in bed for centuries. Rich in insights about sex, lies, and personal identity, the result is entertaining, enthralling, and, yes, sexy.

Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.

The gods are fugitive guests of literature.

The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author.

Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.