“The Paper Bag Princess” is a fairy tale for our times. When I look at the strong, take-charge female protagonists that have become so prominent in books and films, I see them reflected in Princess ...

There was a time when fairy tales were much more than just bedtime stories. Actually, the fanciful tales that have enthralled ...

Excerpted from The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales by Franz Xaver von Schönwerth, edited by Erika Eichenseer, translated by Maria Tatar. Out now from Penguin Classics. The ...

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THE VANISHING PRINCESS: Stories, by Jenny Diski. Ecco, 188 pp., $15.99 paper. Jenny Diski’s “The Vanishing Princess” opens with a fairy tale — the first of several in her droll and bawdy story ...