airy tales date back 6,000 years, yet they continue to pop up in our psyches and the news. The tropes are timeless. A poisoned apple? Understood. A red cape? We get it. But fairy tales also endure ...

As much as I love fairy tales, I'll be the first to admit that they're often hella misogynistic in the treatment of their female characters, sometimes even violently so. There's one little-known fairy ...

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A fairy tale, in its essence, is a story of reversal. Silent and impoverished girls discover not only voices, but jewels and riches pouring from their mouths; the castoff and abandoned find unexpected ...

Over four days last summer, actor Alexa Demie at different points wore elongated elf ears and scales along her spine; spent time dipped in black goo in a purple bedroom with posters taped to the wall; ...

FUENTES: I love Vanessa Chan’s “The Storm We Made,” which is a World War II story set in Malaysia. The main character gets in a relationship with a spy. That book didn’t shy away from the horrors of ...

University of Reading provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Rapunzel, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty – these well-known stories and others, first published by the Brothers Grimm in Kinder- ...

Henry Justice Ford, illustration of Andrew Lang, The Book of Romance (1902), one of the many books of fairytales Lang and his wife published (image via Wikimedia Commons) Specters of the Marvelous ...