Many children dream of stepping into fairy tales. When they become adults, those dreams inspire some of them to build their own fairy tale homes in the real world. And not all fairy tales take place ...

We all know that’s the proper way for a fairy tale to begin. Yet here’s the opening of a fairy tale by Steven Brust: “You want to know what good is? I’ll tell you what good is. My freshman year at the ...

Though its stunning vistas of misty mountains and virgin forests often recall Walt Disney’s Asian excursion in “Mulan,” “Princess Mononoke” from Japan’s Hayao Miyazaki delivers more ferocious battles ...