Tag Archives: Fairy Tales

Despite finding itself under the thumb of Stalin’s Soviet Union after World War II, grey and miserable Communism never quite took in what was then Czechoslovakia, no matter what the Party or the secret police demanded. There was (and still ...

There is something otherworldly about teenage girls. To those of us who have never been teenage girls, or those of us whose adolescences have receded into a dim bubblegum-scented, glitter-strewn past, they seem inherently alien. The intensity of their friendships, ...

“Fairy Tales are not escapist stories; rather, they are brutal engagements with the real world.” – Jack Zipes, Grimm scholar and translator.   Lucky monster kids grew up reading collected stories from the Brothers Grimm—their notoriously weird and sometimes horrific ...