PORT TOWNSEND — The Trickster will slip out to play this Monday night. That’s a promise from storyteller Brian Rohr: In the voices of four humans, those masters of creative chaos — Coyote, Raven, Mink ...

Pairing 21 American Indian storytellers with graphic artists, editor Matt Dembicki has produced a spectacular color anthology of trickster tales, including one by Blackfeet "poet-singer" Jack ...

Pity poor Coyote. Sent to Earth to eliminate people-eating monsters and prepare for the arrival of human beings, he goes at the formidable task less like a superhero than a big goof. Coyote deals with ...

'Trickster' stories are found all over the world. Often, Trickster is an animal or a bird, but stories of human wise-fools also fall under this category. doweshowbellyad=0; Trickster'Trickster' ...

How can a tiny spider get one over on a hippo, an elephant or other animals many times its size and strength? It can if it’s a “trickster.” The trickster is a mythological character prevalent in the ...

Like Hermes himself, Hermes the book is packed with jokes bordering on crass. It is a new voice for the Olympians series, which typically tackles stories as epics or songs. There are a few jokes in ...

Robert J. Wiersema: A unique, genuinely surprising novel from one of Canada's finest writers, a blend of hardscrabble coming-of-age story with mythic fiction at its most powerfully subversive You can ...

Lynell George is a Times staff writer. NIK COHN couldn’t have known what was to befall the city of New Orleans. But like anyone who has spent time there, outside the quaint curio of the French Quarter ...

For the fourth consecutive year, Richmond’s Barefoot Puppets bring their beautiful puppets, delightful characters and imaginative storytelling back to Harrisonburg for a special July 4th performance ...