For my final review I am going straight to the fairies and the havoc they…
Category: Notes from Rapunzel’s Tower
I’ve been waiting all my life for a truly satisfying retelling of my all-time favorite…
Kate Forsyth challenges the notion of the woman-as-muse in The Wild Girl, a novel that imagines the…
It is both gratifying and heartbreaking when reality begins to resemble sci-fi and fantasy: genre…
I don’t know about you, but lately I’ve been thinking a lot about World War…
In the fairy tale “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” a king offers a reward to the…
When we read the classic tales of good versus evil, it is natural to identify…
For several months I avoided doing a post on the work of Helen Oyeyemi, one…
I have something to tell you: I had a Slavic grandmother, a Russian-Polish woman whose…
Jean Thompson is a former National Book Award Finalist, which will come as no surprise…