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Podcast: Myth in the Mojave
Episode: The (Mythopoetic) Power
Description: "Electrifying! Shocking! Will knock your socks off! Then you'll think twice, about everything."  ―Margaret AtwoodCan a novel about women with electrifying power help us create new myths about gender?The Power by Naomi Alderman is an engrossing read AND a mythopoetic work that invites conversation about our myths of gender and patriarchy. Alderman tells a good story. She also asks important and provocative questions. Could the answers we find contribute to a new mythos about men and women and human nature? I hope you'll read it for yourself-- and here are a few...