Pinocchio, Princesses, and the Moral Imagination

by Mark Bauerlein

Vigen Guroian joins the podcast to discuss his book Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination.
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13 Jul 2023

Specter of the Beatitudes

by Eve Tushnet

Workers’ Tales:  Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britain edited by michael rosen princeton, 328 pages, $19.95 When I was a girl, I had a picture book, The Day the Fairies Went on Strike. This 1981 confection by Linda Briskin and Maureen FitzGerald, with . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2019

Why We Believe in Fairies

by Stephen R. L. Clark

Everyone—or almost everyone—agrees that there are no such things as fairies nowadays, and probably never were. They seem to belong to the class of mildly amusing, spooky things mentioned in urban fantasies for fun and in antireligious tracts to suggest that believing in God is just as silly. To . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2017

Raw Tales

by Russell A. Berman

The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by jacob and wilhelm grimm translated and edited by jack zipes princeton, 568 pages, $35 F or two hundred years, the Grimms’ fairy tales have charmed the world. Yet their wide circulation has gone hand in hand with a systematic dilution. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2015