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 ...

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 ...

Editor Ailbhe Malone introduces her new anthology Banshee, which sees a formidable line-up of acclaimed female writers (amongst them Naoise Dolan, Megan Nolan, Wendy Erskine and Sarah Maria Griffin) ...

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 ...

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- ...

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 ...