Guernica Magazine

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The novelist discusses his latest book, The Changeling, and imagining the deaths of your children. The post Victor LaValle: Fairy Tales Redux appeared first on Guernica.

The Paris Review

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Sabrina Orah Mark’s monthly column, Happily, focuses on fairy tales and motherhood. “I know you’re the tooth fairy.” Noah, my eight-year-old, looks me dead in the eye. We are out to dinner. A large television hangs from the wall. Without blinking, h

Chat It's Fate

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Witches love an altar – but it’s always important that our altars represent the season we’re in and are decorated appropriately. Roses are the flower of June, so they’re a popular choice for summer altars – however, red, pink or yellow only as we nev

Literary Hub

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In the happy country of fairies, one leaves it only to find one’s way back. One suffers only to become happy, whereas pain is for us an enigma and life a struggle without end where the better people are the first to fall. There, in the country of fai

Chat It's Fate

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In the UK, we’ve got the Beast of Bodmin, Black Shucks and the Loch Ness monster – just a few of the weird and wonderful entities that are the stuff of British folklore and fairy tales. Other countries have their own crazy creatures – and they’re eve

ImagineFX

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LOCATION: England MEDIA: Photoshop WEB: www.artstation.com/alexandracurte “I’ve been painting my whole life and the fantasy genre is my favourite,” says Alexandra. “I’ve always loved fairy tales and all things magic and folklore, which can be found i

Entertainment Weekly

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With her bracingly original take on a classic Greek myth, Daisy Johnson not only reinvents a story—but also the whole notion of storytelling itself.

Psychologies

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I was thrilled to see that you opened The Fix pages of the April issue with a paragraph about fierce mythological women. It is fabulous to see strong women celebrated in mythology, when in our culture we typically read fairy tales in which women and

ImagineFX

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LOCATION: Finland MEDIA: PaintTool SAI, Photoshop WEB: www.artstation.com/midorisa “I enjoy painting artworks inspired by mythology, fairy tales and nature,” says Riikka, a fantasy artist and illustrator who enhances her work with vibrant colours and

Fortean Times

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Forteana and folklore are strongly connected to sleep. Ghosts walk down corridors while residents hide under duvets; aggressive polts pull sheets from over and even under sleepers. Aliens have, of course, perfected early morning visits, with abductio

Total Girl

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Could witches actually exist? Are fairy tales not tales at all but relics of a the not-too-distant past? These questions and more are on Roxy’s mind ever since she moved into the Soup Ministry’s servant quarters with her sister Gretel. The Soup Minis

All About History

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A common trope in fairy and folk tales is magical protection. This can take the form of an enchanted object, such as a hero’s shield, or it can take the form of a space or place, like the mythical Isle of Avalon in Arthurian myth, sheltered from the

The Atlantic

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Robin Sloan, the author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, discusses his new short story for The Atlantic.

Entertainment Weekly

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BY Louise Erdrich PAGES 267 GENRE Sci-Fi IF REAL LIFE SEEMS TO BE tipping further toward dystopia lately, it makes sense that art would follow—even for a novelist as earthbound and richly humanist as Louise Erdrich. Though her latest actually foun

NPR

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Elizabeth Lim's new young adult novel follows a girl who disguises herself as a boy and sets off for the emperor's court in place of her ailing father, who's been summoned as an imperial tailor.

Global Voices

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"It is not the same to be a white gay [man] from the city than a brown gay [man], with body that is not normative, with an indigenous face..."

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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Leah Swann, 49, was born in Melbourne where she remembers a childhood “full of daydreaming, playing outside, storytelling, drawing and reading”. She was always filling notebooks with stories and says over time “it dawned on me I was a writer”. A volu

Entertainment Weekly

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BY Sam Lipsyte PAGES 284 GENRE Fiction HOW DOES A YOUNG, AIMLESS man go from failed comic to corporate-wellness hack to revered lifestyle guru? Pretty easily, it turns out. Author Sam Lipsyte presents a hero for our times in Hark, a meditation

CrossStitcher

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“Many of the beloved fairy tales we know today were compiled or adapted for a modern audience by the Brothers Grimm. The brothers, Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm, were two German scholars, born in the late 18th century. Their book, Gr

Chat It's Fate

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In Celtic mythology, the Daonine Sidhe are the fae folk who were defeated by the Milesians or Gaels in an epic battle. The Gaels wanted all of Ireland for themselves, and drove the fairies underground. The many mounds dotted around Ireland are though

PC Gamer

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Taking away some of the complexities seen in other JRPGS, Fae Tactics is a stripped down and faster experience than classics like Final Fantasy Tactics. From the outset, the game lays out building blocks that most strategy players are familiar with:

Inked

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Las Vegas is the home of many beautiful women; however, none are quite as magical as those created by Kurtis Rykovich who pulls his inspiration from fairy tales, horror, comics and the furthest depths of his imagination. However, while his Damsels ar

Writing Magazine

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Taramind is an unusual new magazine whose editorial team work around the theme of creative writing ‘in, around, and about science, scientists, and the interaction between science and society.’ The team wish to ‘foster an understanding of science as a

Literary Hub

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Writing this column allows me to indulge my passion for fiction—but it also allows me, more specifically, to indulge my passion for fiction in translation. Bear with me for a moment. I know we all have lots of things begging for our time, and while,

Literary Hub

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Aaron Mahnke—the creator, writer, and voice of Lore—is having a busy October. The podcast at the centre of that buzz has slowly become a juggernaut, with some 6 million bi-monthly listeners, a brand-new Amazon series from the executive producer of Th

History Scotland

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Scotland experienced intense witch hunts during the 16th and 17th centuries. Out of a population of about one million, roughly 4,000 witches were formally accused and perhaps around 2,500 were executed. Scotland’s witch-hunts were severe, with about

SFX

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RELEASED 12 SEPTEMBER 384 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Alix E Harrow Publisher Orbit Books Sometimes, all it takes is one sentence. In the case of Alix Harrow’s debut, it’s this: “In the fall of 1903 I was nine, and the world was tasting t

Writing Magazine

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Lonely Cryptid Media is looking for submissions for its second anthology of fiction and poetry: ‘Stories of resistance and rebellion, but also of the steps in between and the change that comes after.’ They want tales or ballads or sagas of, ‘People a

Country Homes & Interiors

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I’ve always loved fairy tales. I was given a copy of Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales when I was around nine years old and I remember reading it from cover to cover, over and over again – Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, The Three Spinners… I loved them all.

The Writer

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Since 1976, the literary magazine Lilith has published poetry and prose with the goals of amplifying Jewish women’s voices and empowering Jewish girls and women in their lives and in their communities. Editor-in-Chief Susan Weidman Schneider is of th