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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you're looking for something new to read with your kids, these modern fairy tales are worth adding to your home library. Where ...

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 ...

Neil Gaiman's quote, often linked to Coraline, highlights fairy tales' value not in denying danger but in showing it can be ...

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 ...

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, ...

I was an edgy teenager, somewhere between grunge and jock. In the late 90s, I had bleached blonde Eminem hair. I listened to the Beastie Boys and Bob Dylan. I was also a sports fanatic who played ...

Stephen King's "Fairy Tale" (Scribner, 608 pp.) has unseated the queens. After an entire summer of Colleen Hoover's "It Ends With Us" and "Verity" and Delia Owens' "Where the Crawdads Sing" owning the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...