A Silent Wood
O silent wood, I enter thee
With a heart so full of misery
For all the voices from the trees
And the ferns that cling about my...
In Search of the Sisterhood
The word Pre-Raphaelite almost always conjures up a certain kind of woman. She has a cascade of copper hair, a face filled with mournful...
Madder and Woad: Color and the Victorians
“Down with the pretty ladies of the old school! Down with the old masters! Away with the pretty ladies!”
Ken Russell’s Dante’s Inferno (1967), a...
The Night of The Witch
Photo by Natalya Letunova on Unsplash
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Every few years they came searching and this was the year they found them. Three sisters living...
We Talk Fairy Tales with Helen Oyeyemi
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At age twenty-nine, Nigerian-born, London-raised Helen Oyeyemi has written five novels: The Icarus Girl (2005), The Opposite House (2007),...
Talking Magic and Storytelling with Isabel Allende
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Any reader who wants engrossing fiction that tugs on the threads that connect humanity will find a match in...
Eowyn Ivey
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PHOTOGRAPHY BY VIONA IELEGEMS
Ewyn Ivey’s award-winning 2012 debut novel The Snow Child tells the story of a...
If Wishes Were Mittens
As twilight touched the snowy, wooded landscape, the little girl saw her worried mother standing on the front porch of the tiny cottage and...
At Home in the Forest
BY SARA CLETO AND BRITTANY WARMAN
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAN PAULY
The concept of hygge is all about creating cozy, safe, and happy spaces. Embracing hygge means...
The Root Queen’s Winter
Photography by MICHAELA DURISOVA
The root queen knows your secret hopes.
The root queen knows your heart
The root queen’s crown is thorn and branch;
her garden, silver...