Jodi Picoult is a familiar name to those of us who race through the Hudson News stores at LAX just before we board a plane. We are smug in our certainty — we know what we’re getting when we pluck one ...

Here are some stories a lot of us grew up with. First, “The Fisherman and His Wife.” You remember: A fisherman catches a flounder, and the fish says it is enchanted and pleads to be spared. The ...

Anything on the theme of faith and fairy stories is charged with provocative irony to such a degree that those writing on the subject usually do so as an act of ironic provocation. The cynic and the ...

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Fairy Tales, the latest exhibition at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), gives off the pleasurable hum of remix culture, artists riffing on a core theme in numerous ways.

The Fisherman and His Wife (1882) by Alexander Zick (1845–1907) from Grimms' Fairy Tales, published by Gebruder Reichenbach Source: Gebruder Reichenbach/Public Domain Fairy tales have enchanted us for ...

Liz Grauerholz, an associate professor of sociology, teamed with Lori Baker-Sperry, an assistant professor of women's studies at Western Illinois University and a former Purdue graduate student, to ...

You may have been read fairytales as a child, but centuries ago the original stories were intended for adults. As tales of warning about sexuality, violence and death, the stories were far from ...

Quick question: How many fairy tales can you name? If you haven't read Hans Christian Andersen or Andrew Lang in a while, you should definitely commit to reading some of their archetypal tales soon.