Tag: fantasy

Human Dominion in Kipling’s Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling’s 1902 Just So Stories are a delightful anomaly—they feel like folk tales but were largely invented by Kipling himself as bedtime stories for his eldest daughter, Josephine.

On the Front Porch with Ursula Le Guin

Those who do know her work might be a bit surprised if I suggest that Le Guin has a real porcher sensibility.

Caped Crusaders and the Flight From Society

The American appetite for cinematic adaptations of children’s stories about grown men who dress as rodents to save the world from grown men dressed...