Fairy Tale Review Archive
Once upon a time …
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
Pinnochia from Pleasure Island
Now I think of what I’d die to forget. Now I forget.
Where did I grow up, get out—was I as rich as a golden
yolk waiting to crack in the hay?
Blue Funk
People love my city for its brasseries like hothouses, ardent and perverse, its breezes that smell of coffee and of the sea.
Little Red Riding Hood
Of this world we know very little.
In my little house I know green
stags leap over me when I sleep.
Fairy-Tale Files: Invisible Cities
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s Assistant Editors. Brazilian...
Fairy-Tale Files: Dapplegrim
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s Assistant Editors. Lubber,...
Fairy-Tale Files: The Moon
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s Assistant Editors. What...
Pins & Needles No. 9: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
“Which path are you going to take,” asked the wolf, “the path of needles or the path of pins?” No. 9: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum What do you look...
Fairy-Tale Files: Rapunzel
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s Assistant Editors. Oleg...
Fairy-Tale Files: The Little Mermaid
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s Assistant Editors. A...
Pins & Needles No. 8: Katie Wudel
“Which path are you going to take,” asked the wolf, “the path of needles or the path of pins?” No. 8: Katie Wudel What role do apocalypses...
Watch Night of Fairy Tales 2014: A Wonderful Reading of Oz
Night of Fairy Tales is an interdisciplinary reading hosted by Kate Bernheimer and co-sponsored by the College of Humanities, the Department of...
Fairy-Tale Files: The Juniper Tree
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s Assistant Editors. Juniper...
Pins & Needles No. 7: Rochelle Hurt
“Which path are you going to take,” asked the wolf, “the path of needles or the path of pins?” No. 7: Rochelle Hurt How does poverty...
Fairy-Tale Files: The Six Swans
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s Assistant Editors. In this...
Fairy-Tale Files: The Robber Bridegroom
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s Assistant Editors. Chad...
