Los Angeles Times

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Classic fairy tales are reimagined in present-day New York in the dark CBS All Access series "Tell Me a Story." The forests and cottages of those old fables are an urban jungle here, populated with power brokers, male go-go dancers and, most shocking

Lens Magazine

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Early on, Katerina Belkina (b. 1974) knew about her exceptional talent to see the world through different eyes. Born in Samara in the southeast of European Russia, she was raised in a creative atmosphere by her mother, a visual artist. Her education

The Atlantic

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On Saturday, millions of people around the world will tune in to watch a fairy tale. A prince will marry his beloved and, together, they’ll parade through the streets in a horse-drawn carriage, waving—royally—to thousands of adoring subjects as they

TIME

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IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO DISCUSS Gingerbread, the sixth novel from Helen Oyeyemi—named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists in 2013—without the mention of fairy tales. Just a few of the new book’s familiar elements include enchanted confecti

PEARL

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Fairy tales belong to ancient human heritage. They are not tied to any particular country or people, so we find the same or similar themes everywhere. They are stories that have no relationship at all to earthly human history. Fairy tales tell nothin

NPR

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Kenji Miyazawa is a beloved author in Japan; this book — a reissue of a 1993 story collection — balances chaos and kindness, natural and supernatural to build a world in which anything might happen.

NPR

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Elizabeth Lim's new young adult novel follows a girl who disguises herself as a boy and sets off for the emperor's court in place of her ailing father, who's been summoned as an imperial tailor.

Writing Magazine

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Enchanted Conversation is a monthly US webzine for adult readers with a love of classic fairytales. Originally debuting in 2007, the site relaunched this summer and now publishes one story per month and two non-fiction articles. The editor is Kate Wo

The Guardian

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A new series of rejigged tales gets much closer to the spirit of these stories than the ‘traditional’ versions we’re force-fed

NPR

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Disney's new live-action extravaganza is just the latest retelling of this classic fairy tale. But why do Beauty and her Beast have such a hold on us? And why are there so many versions of their tale?

You South Africa

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WHEN we talk of fairytales we’re referring to short stories that usually involve a prince or princess who lives in an undefined place – a kingdom far, far away. The stories include fantasy creatures such as fairies, giants, elves, dragons and mermaid

The Millions

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1. The logic of novice programming goes something like this: Run function (x, y) If x is greater than y: Do this Else if y is greater than x: Do that Else: Something else happens. I quickly learned that computers don’t like choice, and they don’t lik

Chat It's Fate

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Reading fairy tales as an adult is a completely different experience to the bedtime stories you enjoyed as a child, especially if you pay close attention to the magical symbolism within the tales. Clues to your personal gifts, strengths and challenge

Watch

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“USUALLY, I’M TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM reality,” says best-selling author Alice Hoffman, who is noted for embracing magical realism in such novels as Practical Magic, The Dovekeepers, and The Marriage of Opposites. At first glance, her 28th work of adul

SFX

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⏵ RELEASED 17 JUNE 480 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook ⏵ Author Hannah Whitten ⏵ Publisher Orbit Books Wolves run through fairy tales, flashing a tooth here, a tail there. But if you pick this up expecting to see familiar motifs popping up, you’ll

Country Homes & Interiors

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I’ve always loved fairy tales. I was given a copy of Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales when I was around nine years old and I remember reading it from cover to cover, over and over again – Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, The Three Spinners… I loved them all.

Writing Magazine

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It almost seems too obvious to state that writing fiction is a way to tap into the very depths of human imagination. But for me, this is the ultimate truth. And I’m in good company. From William Blake to Einstein to Freud the imagination has been con

Literary Hub

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This is the story of two messy cats. One wore a hat and had no known permanent address, while the other lived alone in a cat-sized house in Japan. You might know the first cat from The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss. A staple for the American child, thi

Art Market Magazine

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My face and body are the main instruments I use to incarnate the images I want. Standing in front of the camera as a model, I follow the age-old theatrical playing roles. It gives impetus to the development of my own manner of narration. A part of my

NPR

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Anna-Marie McLemore braids old bits of myth about swans and cursed sisters into a new, more inward-looking story that lets readers see just how hard it is to be a character in a fairy tale.

Psychologies

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I was thrilled to see that you opened The Fix pages of the April issue with a paragraph about fierce mythological women. It is fabulous to see strong women celebrated in mythology, when in our culture we typically read fairy tales in which women and

The Guardian

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A story by Madame d’Aulnoy, the 17th-century French writer who coined the term “fairytales”, is to be published in English for the first time in more than 300 years, telling of a woman whose beauty is so great it slays her lovers by the hundreds. Mar

Literary Hub

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In the happy country of fairies, one leaves it only to find one’s way back. One suffers only to become happy, whereas pain is for us an enigma and life a struggle without end where the better people are the first to fall. There, in the country of fai

The Atlantic

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The action-packed 'Snow White and the Huntsman' is less a subversion of an old story than a return to one.

Literary Hub

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Rachel Ingalls’ fictions are like nothing I’ve ever read before. To call her a practitioner of American Gothic doesn’t quite do justice to the blend of flavors she brings to the genre. Eerie hybrids of Richard Yates-esque domestic realism, B-movie ho

Literary Hub

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I read hundreds of pages a week for my English PhD program. When I left my program after four years, I discovered an unexpected side effect: I could no longer read the vast majority of adult fiction. This wasn’t just a matter of taste, but of physica

Screen Education

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An adaptation of one of Charles Perrault’s lesser-known fairytales, Jacques Demy’s Donkey Skin is a classic French musical that is equal parts dark and playfully surreal. Analysing the film’s subtle commentary on age-old romantic narrative tropes

DIVA

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BOOK OF THE MONTH FICTION Kalynn Bayron Queering a fairytale isn’t new, but when it’s good it’s really good… For many LGBTQI women who were coming of age in the late 2000s, Ash by Malinda Lo may have been the first lesbian retelling of Cinderella the

Literary Hub

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Almost two years ago, I walked through a forest and found myself thinking of fairy tales. The forest is a magical place, so perhaps this is not surprising; what was surprising at the time was the creeping realization, as I walked among the trees, of

The Atlantic

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This article is from the archive of our partner Ever wonder why boys and girls choose particular toys, particular colors, and particular stories? Why is it that girls want to dress in pink and to be princesses, or boys want to be Darth Vader, warr