Stephen King's "Fairy Tale" (Scribner, 608 pp.) has unseated the queens. After an entire summer of Colleen Hoover's "It Ends With Us" and "Verity" and Delia Owens' "Where the Crawdads Sing" owning ...

Based on popular fairy tales, these authors have taken the stories to a new level, with inspirational books offering a more in-depth—and often sinister—version of the beloved children’s tales.

Only, instead of ending at the ball, it starts there. However, alongside the fairy tale nature of the story, it's also a fascinating look into the differences in social classes of the Regency period.

This year, Zipes has a new book out with Princeton University Press on the power of political fairy tales. "Buried Treasures" is a collection of essays analyzing the subversive meanings of a dozen ...

T he clearest candidate for America’s favorite fairy tale might be The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The author L. Frank Baum set ...

With Fairy Tale, King's latest novel out this week, the legendary master of horror returns to the idea that immersing yourself in stories can ultimately buoy you in your darkest hour, and this ...

Kristen Roupenian reviews “White Cat, Black Dog,” a new book of short stories by Kelly Link, whose last collection was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize.

Published in 2021, it's the story of a fairy named Hua Erniang, who loves jokes and seeks to learn new ones. For more than 3,000 years, she has been searching for jokes in people's dreams. With ...

Novel approach to 'fairy tale' Play based on book that examines society to be staged in Beijing, Chen Nan reports.

Sarah Cypher’s set-in-Portland story features engaging characters and a compelling plot.

In his latest work, Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales, Zipes shares lost stories, that he says, could transform minds and nations for the better.