HBO's adaptation of Madeline Miller's celebrated 2018 novel, Circe, is due out in 2021, but with a release date still to be announced at the time of this writing, readers may have to wait months to ...

What if every fairy tale you heard as a child was just one part of the story? What if another version was more realistic and perhaps a bit more wild? Would you want to read it? Of course you would; we ...

Once upon a time, fairy tales were the rage in fashionable Paris. At literary salons and at the court of Louis XIV, ladies and gentlemen beguiled one another with fantastical tales of talking animals ...

Two scholars helped provide perspective to my Sunday (Oct. 23) Times-Picayune piece about the two new TV series that are built on fairy-tale characters and stories. This post is an edited e mail Q&A ...

Written during the COVID-19 pandemic as a “happy” outlet to placate King’s prolific imagination, Fairy Tale debuted in book form last month with a story that follows 17-year-old protagonist Charlie ...

Whether you're a full-fledged Disney adult or the name Grimm means nothing to you, these novels based on fairy tales will tickle your fancy The words Once Upon a Time have always carried magic for me.

There was once a king and queen who wished dearly for a child, and one day while the woman was sitting alone by the side of a waterfall a crab began to speak and told her that her wish would be ...

From “Cinderella” to “The Three Little Pigs,” there are stories that are so deeply embedded in our literature and culture that we might not recall the first time we heard them. Certainly, though, ...

‘Grapes as large as eggs, each of them ripe and sweet and juicy . . . baby cream cheeses smoother than velvet . . . spicy sausages . . . melting beefsteaks ...

While there are so many strange holidays in the world, February 26th is one of my favorites: Tell a Fairy Tale Day! While it might be a little bit made up of a holiday, we are still going to celebrate ...

Elizabeth Lim, the author of “Six Crimson Cranes,” recommends some of her favorite retellings of classic fairy tales. By Elizabeth Lim Fairy tales made me fall in love with reading. When I was a kid, ...