The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, were just in their late 20s when they published one of the most significant books in the history of fairy tales. Born in 1785 and 1786 respectively, Jacob and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Freudian, Marxist, feminist — fairy tales have famously been put through any number of academic paces, mined for their politics, their unconscious symbolism, their cultural freight and transformative ...

MinnPost’s reporting is always free, but it isn’t free to produce. We rely on donations from our readers to fund our independent journalism. Fairy tales just don’t die. They just get rebooted for new ...

This tale starts with the princess being born and all of the fairies presenting her with birthday wishes. One fairy, who had not been invited to the party, cursed her and said that during her ...

In The Brothers Grimm, Terry Gilliam invites us into the woods to witness the murder of Little Red Riding Hood in a setting of such breathtaking allure that we experience a double jolt—one ...

From Cinderella to Rapunzel to the really gruesome tales you might not know – the myth and magic of the Grimm Brothers fairy tales. Hansel and Gretel by Arthur Rackham 1909. Once upon a time – 200 ...

Improbably, a girl finds strawberries in the snow to feed her stepmother in The Three Little Men in the Woods. If you've only come across fairy tales courtesy of Walt Disney, or some other sweetened ...

Translators of fairy-tale collections have always played fast and loose with the rules of their craft. The “television and pornography” of an earlier age (as John Updike tells us), fairy tales ...

The Grimms are in our blood. The fairy tales of "Cinderella," "Hansel and Gretel," "The Fisherman and His Wife," "Rumpelstiltskin" and dozens of others have become the common currency of our ...