“… good and evil, life and death, order and chaos.” We’re Talking Persian Mythology Today with Ryan Bani Tahmaseb

My love of folktales, fairy tales, world tales, religious tales, etc. is without limit. And while there is no denying that the era of such tales on our library shelves has passed, this isn’t to say that such tales aren’t still being published out there today. The trick simply lies in finding them.

In Persian Mythology: Epic Stories of Gods, Heroes, and Monsters (out today), author Ryan Bani Tahmaseb writes in his Introduction, “Persians are some of the greatest storytellers around.” When...