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If you're in need of a little extra magic in your life, try harnessing it by summoning all sorts of fairies to your garden and home. Entice the enchanting creatures by creating a fairy village filled ...

A widowed king with a daughter named Flora remarries a widowed queen with her own daughter named Troutina. Flora is beautiful and amiable, while Troutina is ugly and mean. When both daughters are of ...

One mystery many biologists want to solve is how complexity develops in nature. And among the many social systems in the natural world, multilevel societies stand out for their complexity. Individuals ...

Mirrors that reflect nothing. A rat catcher who threatens to maim his daughter. A little blond girl too good to be true. Banishments and spells. And secrets. Lots of secrets. Those are just some of ...

The risks that Helen Oyeyemi takes in her fifth novel, “Boy, Snow, Bird,” are astonishing in their boldness. “Nobody ever warned me about mirrors,” begins the narrator, Boy, a pale white girl in ...

Boy, Snow, Bird reimagines the traditional Snow White fairy tale. Helen Oyeyemi's new novel explores beauty, envy and identity in New England in the 1950s — race and skin color shape the characters' ...

If you love birds as much as I do, you may be captivated by their vibrancy of colors, their range of sounds (whether sweet like those of songbirds or booming like the bittern), their ability to fly ...