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The practice of retelling fairy tales in the form of literary fiction is, if not quite hallowed, certainly established. The great Angela Carter’s revelatory 1979 story collection, “The Bloody Chamber” — a brocaded work of heady sensuality, intelligence and violence — remains the benchmark, but Kate Bernheimer’s Fairy Tale Review and the several excellent Bernheimer-edited anthologies spun off from it carry the standard forward. Those are just some of the more overt homages; Western literature owes as much to fairy tales as it does to Greek myth and the Bible. 

 

-The New York Times

(re)peat

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Billie R. Tadros | Feb 21, 2018

The spears, the spires I aspired to be as reaching because what
did you know about tapers.

Oyster

Prose, Web Exclusives | by Inez Tan | Feb 14, 2018

Out of oxygen, algae, and a grain of calcium carbonate, the oyster came to be.

Birthstones

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Elizabeth T. Chao | Feb 7, 2018

It is November.
I am mining crystal geodes
from the dead

Fairy-Tale Files: The Labyrinth Edition

Fairy-Tale Files | Mar 20, 2015

(A one-off analysis, mullets and all…)Jareth: The Sexiest Rumpelstiltskin of 1986 David Bowie’s portrayal of Jareth, the Goblin King, is stunning....

Pins & Needle No. 27: Matthew Mercier

Pins & Needles | Mar 17, 2015

No. 27: Matthew MercierQ. Do you think humans are naturally drawn, in some way, to the ugly, as you once were to the witch in The Wizard of Oz? Why...

Fairy-Tale Files: Atop Every Puppet’s Bucket List…

Fairy-Tale Files | Mar 13, 2015

Pinocchio by Enrico Mazzanti. Inked by Daniel Donna.Splinter Me, ItalyDebuting in the 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Florentine writer...

Fairy-Tale Files: Let’s Make a Deal

Fairy-Tale Files | Mar 6, 2015

BearskinIn this story, originated by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen and retold by the Brothers Grimm, a German solider deserts his...

Pins & Needles No. 26: Abigail Zimmer

Pins & Needles | Mar 3, 2015

No. 26: Abigail ZimmerQ. I enjoyed the list aspects in “At the Closing of the World,” bonus points for coral and that beluga whale. “Hiatus” also...

Fairy-Tale Files: True Love's Kiss

Fairy-Tale Files | Feb 27, 2015

Or, Life, Death and the Amphibians in BetweenDisney’s The Princess and the FrogPrince Naveen is convinced that Tiana’s kiss will reverse the spell...

Pins & Needles No. 25: Sarah Sarai

Pins & Needles | Feb 24, 2015

No. 25: Sarah SaraiQ. Winged monkeys, especially those that shoot fire, are bound to provoke anxiety. Suppose they were granted an audience with the...

Fairy-Tale Files: The Technologists Grimm

Fairy-Tale Books | Feb 20, 2015

Polymer is the New MorphBody transformation figures prominently in such fairy tales as “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Juniper Tree.” New medical...

Pins & Needles No. 24: Carrie Messenger

Pins & Needles | Feb 17, 2015

No. 24: Carrie MessengerQ. "I couldn’t remember before the Dust, but my sister could. She had two years on me. She was four when the Dust came." Do...

Fairy-Tale Files: Little People, Hans Christian World

Fairy-Tale Files | Feb 13, 2015

ThumbelinaPeople come in all shapes and sizes in the world of fairy tales and real life. The main character of this Hans Christian Andersen story is...

Pins & Needles No. 23: Grace Bauer

Pins & Needles | Feb 10, 2015

No. 23: Grace BauerQ. The craft aficionado in me adores your poem’s stanza construction, particularly the transition between stanzas two and three....

Fairy-Tale Files: Angered Ogres

Fairy-Tale Files | Feb 6, 2015

Hop o' My ThumbA Hansel and Gretelesque tale, the witch is replaced by an ogre who possesses a strong body, great height and cannibalistic streak....

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