Wendy Doniger

Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. She is the author of, among other books, Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India and The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was.

In the LRB Archive:

• How to Escape the Curse: The Mahabharata · 8 October 2009

  • The Mahabharata translated by John Smith

• The Land East of the Asterisk: the Indo-Europeans · 10 April 2008

  • Indo-European Poetry and Myth by M.L. West

• Female Bandits? What next!: The incarnations of Robin Hood · 22 July 2004

  • Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography by Stephen Knight

• Lacan’s Ghost: The mirror · 3 January 2002

  • The Mirror: A History by Sabine Melchior-Bonnet, translated by Katharine Jewett

• Can you spot the source?: Harry Potter Explained · 17 February 2000

  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

• Mae West and the British Raj: Dinosaur Icons · 18 February 1999

  • The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon by W.J.T. Mitchell

• Don’t do it!: Dick Francis · 15 October 1998

  • Field of 13 by Dick Francis

• What did they name the dog?: Twins · 19 March 1998

  • Twins: Genes, Environment and the Mystery of Identity by Lawrence Wright

• Lighting-Up Time · 6 March 1997

  • The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain by Ronald Hutton

• Four in a Bed · 8 February 1996

  • Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life by Marjorie Garber

• Once upon a Real Time · 23 March 1995

  • From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers by Marina Warner

• Calf and Other Loves · 4 August 1994

  • Dearest Pet: On Bestiality by Midas Dekkers, translated by Paul Vincent

• Hang Santa · 16 December 1993

  • Unwrapping Christmas edited by Daniel Miller

• Diary · 23 September 1993

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