To understand why authors write new versions of fairy tales and introduce you to researching fairy tale scholarship and criticism; to focus on genre differences and constraints.

How do fairy tales, with roots reaching deep into the past, continue to cast their spell on us? This question animates The Art of Fairy Tales by Joanna Ebenstein. The book is a visual exploration of ...

Content warning: this article contains reference to racist depictions of First Nations people. Most of us grew up reading fairy tales adapted from the European tradition: stories of kings, queens and ...