fairy stories
Elegiac and exuberant: short stories from Philip Hensher and Helen Oyeyemi
Discussions about the short story too often fall into a false dichotomy that can be characterised, in essence, by a…
Are old fairy stories too scary for kids?
Moving house, stacking books in boxes, I came across a clutch of fairy books, Andrew Lang’s folk tales from around…
The fairytale life of Hans Christian Andersen
It has long been my habit, when approaching a new biography, to read the account of the subject’s childhood first,…
