Fairy Tale Review Archive
Browse submissions from past editions, web exclusive content, author Q&A, and more.
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
To Take a Woman’s Voice
Because she cannot speak, the prince views her as a favorite pet
Wolf Lessons
There are wolf objects scattered throughout my house: a canis lupus Beanie Baby named Howl, a carved wooden ornament, a snowglobe with a wolf pup...
Is This the Real Life?
It’s a clear case of alternative facts over objective reality
The Changeling
A post by Dwight Garner on the New York Times book blog about The Changeling's sad fate in 1978, and its triumphant reissue this May, at the above...
Contributor Kellie Wells Interviewed in The Kalamazoo Gazette
Here's a wonderful interview about fairy tales and writing with Kellie Wells, whose story "Rabbit Catcher of Kingdom Come" will appear in Fairy Tale...
