One of this summer's biggest films is Angelina Jolie's Maleficent, an alternative take on Sleeping Beauty illuminating the memorable villain's humanity. Maleficent comes in the wake of this past ...

In 2009, Erika Eichenseer discovered 500 previously unpublished fairy tales in the municipal archives of Regensburg, Germany. Collected in the 19th century by a Bavarian civil servant named Franz ...

Sleeping Beauty becomes an allegory about consent, Peter Pan is recast as a “creepy” Peeping Tom, and Ariel must weigh whether the “vagina-a-bob” that comes attached to her new legs is worth losing ...

Split into chapters including tales of transformation, love and relationships and fears, desires and phobias, you can flick to the section that most relates to your life and seek advice from it. The ...

Many students come to Iowa State University looking at college as a simple walk-in, walk-out ordeal, entirely missing out on ...

And now, Natalie has revealed she chose to work on updating the stories because she wanted her three-year-old daughter Amalia to be able to enjoy the classic works whilst also introducing her to a ...

When fairy tales were first written down by the Grimm Brothers, there was no way to tell how immersive, grand and spectacular the folk stories would appear on movie screens. Legends that fascinated ...

Tangled, Disney's latest fairy tale movie, was shut out at the Golden Globe Awards last weekend. Nominated for two — Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Song ("I See the Light") — the ...

Mallory Ortberg, co-founder of the dearly departed feminist website The Toast, Slate’s “Dear Prudence,” and the author of “Children’s Stories Made Horrific” and “Texts from Jane Eyre,” turns beloved ...