XO Orpheus: fifty new myths

Introduction / Kate Bernheimer

Anthropogenesis And Norse Creation Myth : Anthropogenesis, Or: How to Make a Family / Laura van den Berg

Argos : Argos / Joy Williams

Bacchantes : The Sisters / Sabina Murray

Baucis And Philemon : Sawdust / Edward Carey

Brownies : Friend Robin / Maile Chapman

The Caliph Of One Thousand And One Nights : The Veiled Prophet / David B.

Candaules And Gyges, As Told By Herodotus : Henry and Booboo / Elanor Dymott

Coyote Myths : Modern Coyote / Shane Jones

Cronos : Devourings / Aimee Bender

Daedalus : Labyrinth / Ron Currie, Jr.

Daedalus : The Last Flight of Daedalus / Anthony Marra

Daphne : Daphne / Dawn Raffel

Demeter : Demeter / Maile Meloy

Demeter And Persephone : Kid Collins / Willy Vlautin

Eris : Sleeping Beauty / Gina Ochsner

Galatea And Pygmalion : Galatea / Madeline Miller

God And Satan : The Hand / Manuel Munoz

Golem And Pygmalion : The Dummy / Benjamin Percy

Hades : The Girl with the Talking Shadow / Kale Bernheimer

Human Pentachromats : Wait and See / Edith Pearlman

Icarus : An Occasional Icarus / Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud

Killcrop : Killcrop / Victor LaValle

The Kraken : The Squid Who Fell in Love with the Sun / Ben Loory

Lamia/Child-Eating Demon, Greek : Birdsong from the Radio / Elizabeth McCracken

The Lotus Eaters : The Lotus Eaters / Aurelie Sheehan

The Maenads And Sinbad The Sailor : Slaves / Elizabeth Evans

Mahabharata : Drona's Death / Max Gladstone

Monsters : So Many-Headed Gates / Sheila Heti

Edith Hamilton's Mythology : The Status of Myth / Kelly Braffet and Owen King

Narcissus : Narcissus / Zachary Mason

Odysseus : Back to Blandon / Michael Jeffrey Lee

Odysseus : The Story I Am Speaking to You Now / Davis Schneiderman

Oedipus : The Brigadier-General Takes His Final Stand, by James Butt / Imad Rahman

Orpheus And Eurydice : Dark Resort / Heidi Julavits

Paradise : Mystery Spot: 95065 / Karen Tei Yamashita

Persephone : Lost Lake / Emma Straub and Peter Straub

Phaeton, From Ovid's Metamorphoses : What Wants My Son / Kevin Wilson

Poseidon : Thousand / Laird Hunt

Post-Apocalypse : Belle-Medusa / Manuela Draeger

Raja Rasalu : The Swan's Wife / Aamer Hussein

Sedna, Inuit : Sanna / Kathryn Davis

Sirin : Madame Liang / Lutz Bassmann

Sisyphus : Sissy / Kit Reed

The Strix : In a Structure Simulating an Owl / Ander Monson

Tezcatlipoca : Cat's Eye / Donaji Olmedo

Transformation : Betrayal / Sigrid Nunez

Trojan Horse : A Horse, a Vine / Johanna Skibsrud

The Unconscious : The Hungers of an Old Language / Brian Aldiss

Zeus And Europa, After The D'Aulaires : The White Horse / Sarah Blackman.