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Essays & CorrespondenceThe Translucent Issue is a break from tradition. In some ways, colors are an easier, more obvious entry point into the world of fairy tales. It is not transparent, and thus never explicit on the page -- the Brothers Grimm... See More
Mythology & Folk Tales
Fifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this dazzling follow-up to the bestselling My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me. Icarus flies once more. Aztec jaguar gods again stalk the earth. An... See More
Literature & Fiction
As a child, Lucy dreams of talking fairies and lives contentedly in the wooded suburbs of Boston; she grows up to be a successful animator of fairy-tale films. Or does she? She claims at moments to be a witch in the woods... See More
Anthologies
The fairy tale lives again in this book of forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism. Neil Gaiman, "Orange" Aimee Bender, "The Color Master"... See More
Historical Fiction
Edward Hopper's painting "Office at Night" is open to endless interpretation. In this collaborative novella, Kate Bernheimer and Laird Hunt borrow from his practice of improvising on “the facts" of observation to create a... See More
Literature & Fiction
Unstuck returns with more than 500 pages of elephant men and minotaurs, magic charms and lost islands, talking dogs and miniature husbands, library urchins and zombie bank robbers, mechanical cattle, and many other... See More
Literature & FictionThe Blue Issue is the inaugural issue of Fairy Tale Review. Swiss scholar Max Luthi wrote about fairy tales as literary examples of abstract art. The strange quality that Luthi identifies as "firm form" is sparse, flat and... See More
Literature & Fiction
New edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02. Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking... See More
Literature & Fiction"All great novels are great fairy tales," wrote Vladimir Nabokov many years ago, and Fairy Tale Review continues to believe that all great literary works owe everything to fairy tales. In this issue you will find work... See More
Literature & FictionMauve is a new word with old roots. The color's earlier incarnations -- Tyrian purple (given for the shade of Roman emperors' cloaks) and aniline purple -- were abandoned when, to increase the popularity of Perkin's dye, its... See More
Literature & FictionLike all fairy tales, the story of Little Red gets strength from its multitudes. It is a moving hive, a travelling pack of translations and interpretations too numerous to catalogue. It manages to examine our most salient... See More
Literature & FictionThis issue is themed around yellow: the color of my skin, my namesake, the color used to describe four billion plus Asians, and this doesn't even account for the diasporic population. Yellow, the color of diseased skin and... See More
Literature & FictionWhen we speak of grey as a location, placing a thing into a grey area, the color represents territory where the definite becomes lost. Grey lets us know that the truth is not always clear; even the most well-known paths can... See More
Literature & FictionOchre is the color of our earliest stories. It is the color we chose when we wanted to make paintings on the walls of caves, in places that never did learn the name of sunlight. By the grace of small fires we etched in... See More
Literature & FictionThe sheer volume of responses to the first issue of Fairy Tale Review shows that fairy tales continue to be one of the most viable art forms. In fairy tales, all things are interdependent, mysteriously and insanely entwined... See More
Mythology & Folk Tales
Fairy Tale Review is an annual literary publication dedicated to publishing new fairy-tale fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. It seeks to expand the conversation about fairy tales among practitioners, scholars, and general... See More
Mythology & Folk Tales
The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold is a lavishly poetic novel that draws upon the motifs of traditional German, Russian and Yiddish folklore and fairy stories to recount the visionary obsessions of a passionate young woman... See More
Children's eBooks
Once there was a girl who lived in a castle. The castle was inside a museum. When children visited, they'd press against the glass globe in which the castle sat, to glimpse the tiny girl. But when they went home, the girl... See More
Literature & FictionBrown is the color of the wolf, of the harvest-ravaged farm, of thatched roofs, of cinnamon cake, of autumn, of snuff, of wooden boxes (bridal chests, watch cases, humidors, coffins). If ever there was a color more suited to... See More
Literature & FictionThe Aquamarine Issue is the fifth anniversary issue of Fairy Tale Review, and is appropriately its most oceanic, its most aesthetically diverse, issue to date. Despite this diversity the fairy tale pulse or "feel" is present... See More
Literature & Fiction"At an early age, children are weaned on the marvelous, and later on they fail to retain a sufficient virginity of mind to enjoy fairy tales," Andre Breton wrote in 1924. "There are fairy tales to be written for adults," he... See More
Foreign Languages
This hilarious, over-the-top story is perfect for any little girl who doesn't like to brush her hair. What happens when our heroine neglects her long tresses? Well, one day a mouse comes to live in a particularly tangled... See More
Children's eBooks
When a wonderful new book arrives at the library, at first it is loved by all, checked out constantly, and rarely spends a night on the library shelf. But over time it grows old and worn, and the children lose interest in... See More
Literature & Fiction
An imaginative, hauntingly poetic collection of contemporary fables that redefine the fairy tale for the modern woman. In Kate Bernheimer's familiar and spare -- yet wondrous -- world, an exotic dancer builds her own cage, a... See More