From classic fairy tales from authors such as The Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson to new and original fairy tale books, you can introduce gentle versions of the stories to young children in ...

Hulu's adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale has gone well beyond Margaret Atwood's source material, but what happens to June, and how does The Handmaid's Tale book end? The Hulu Handmaid's Tale TV show ...

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 ...

Curious what happens to Serena in The Handmaid’s Tale books? As season 6 moves toward its dramatic finale, many fans are looking for answers about Serena’s fate. With significant deviations from ...

Once upon a time, people told fairy tales because—well, there were lots of reasons. Folklorists believe that some stories got their start as anecdotes that were spun over time into such good yarns ...

In her latest book, “Cinderella Didn’t Live Happily Ever After: The Hidden Messages in Fairy Tales,” Evanston author Anne Beall used data-driven research to reveal patterns across 169 of Grimms’ fairy ...

Scholarly “scavenger and excavator” as he calls himself, a multi-language translator, editor, progressive educator, and literary, cultural, and social critic Jack Zipes, recently came out with a ...

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 ...

Margaret Atwood has imagined apocalyptic disaster, Dystopian government and an author faking her own death. But until recently she had spared herself the nightmare of trying to burn one of her own ...

Viewers are curious about the fate of June, played by Elisabeth Moss, in The Handmaid’s Tale series and book. Created by Bruce Miller, the dystopian series follows June, a fertile woman, forced to ...