Don’t go swimming in Martian lakes. Closeup of an image from Titi, Nunu, and Klembolo by Helena Modjeska/Courtesy UC Irvine Special Collections and Archives While wildflowers line our freeways, the ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Danish author Karen Blixen (who also worked under the name Isak Dineson) is best known for works like Out of Africa and Babette’s Feast, but the new Netflix film ...

Natalie Frank, All Fur III, 2011-14, Gouache and chalk pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Courtesy of the artist “I was so taken by the stories that I ...

When Hungary’s Dorottya Redai and Boldizsar Nagy released their new children’s book on Sept. 21, they did not expect their initial run of 1,500 copies to sell out within two weeks. Meseorszag ...

Once upon a time, a book reviewer sat down to review a book about fairy tales and had an epiphany. “I have no earthly notion how to review this book about fairy tales,” she said to the goat next to ...

Savage author Cyril Mukalel is inspired by the values and dreams of ordinary people. The Savage Pacer recently interviewed Mukakel about his new illustrated fairy tale, “Flower Princess and the Man ...

Scholarly “scavenger and excavator” as he calls himself, a multi-language translator, editor, progressive educator, and literary, cultural, and social critic Jack Zipes, recently came out with a ...

As 2016, this year of upheavals, draws to a close, "Waves of anger and fear/ Circulate over the bright/ And darkened lands of the earth,/ Obsessing our private lives" (W.H. Auden). For many people, ...