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"Alexa, Open My Fairy Tale"

In an enterprise once thought to be uniquely human, artificial intelligence (AI) is now telling stories that remind us of tales as old as...

A.S. Byatt Wins HCA Literature Award

The Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award, established in 2010, recognizes authors who are inspired by the influential Danish author...

Snow White's SALMON CROQUETTES

Vintage recipe from the Nebraska Power Company featuring Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. As Happy states, "Snow White's SALMON...

One Small Step: a film with big dreams

Counting former Disney animators among its founders, TAIKO studios is a film studio based in Los Angeles and Wuhan, China. Their first...

Divorce Fairy Tale for Kids

When my daughter was young and beginning to experience joint custody, I (Dana Del George) struggled to explain divorce to her. She and I...

The Witch's House of Beverly Hills

"The Witch’s House is a Mecca on Halloween—I knew that when I bought the house," says Michael J. Libow, owner of an iconic home "built...

#FolkloreThursday: Public folklore in action

Many fairy tales were once a part of oral tradition and belong to the broader category of folklore. In the 21st century, the Internet has...

John Bauer: Swedish Fairy Tale Illustrator

When I (Cramer) was an undergraduate, I was an exchange student at Södra Vätterbygdens Folkhögskola in Jönköping, Sweden, the hometown of...

Fairy Tales Inspire Architects

Here are the winners of the fifth annual Fairy Tales Architecture Competition, which is the largest architecture competition in the...

The Science of Fairy Tales

Science writer Ed Yong, in a piece for The Atlantic, explains how "[u]sing techniques from evolutionary biology, scientists have traced...

Maria Tatar, Queen of Fairy Tale Studies

In December of 2013, we attended Maria Tatar's lecture at the Getty Museum. Her topic was "Beauties Sleeping and Beauties Awake: Fairy...

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