Tag Archives: Fairy Tales

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 ...