I didn't grow up in a religious home, but my childhood is filled with memories of my mother telling me and my sisters the story of the Great Flood. It is the perfect bedtime story — filled with ...

The story of Joseph, as we find it in the Book of Genesis, was called “the most beautiful story in the world” by Tolstoy. So Stephen Mitchell, author of “Joseph and the Way of Forgiveness: A Biblical ...

The clearest candidate for America’s favorite fairy tale might be The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The author L. Frank Baum set the novel, published in 1900, in a fantasy land that shares core American ...

In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers compared story retelling between humans and the large language model (LLM), chat generative pre-trained transformer (ChatGPT) ...

Kilkenny writer Karina Tynan has rewritten the Irish epic "Táin", a heroic tale focused on the legendary figure Cúchulainn, from the women’s perspective. "TÁIN: The Women's Stories" is the first ...

Telling family stories about crazy Uncle Joe or other eccentric relatives is a favorite pastime when families gather for the holidays. But will squirming children or Instagram-obsessed teens bother to ...

Sometimes a story is just so dang good, it bears repeating. From James Joyce’s Ulysses to Bridget Jones’s Diary, you’ve probably read a book that was just a modern retelling of a well-established ...