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From her father's death to her glass slippers, Disney's Cinderella diverges from the original fairy tale several times.

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After she was killed, colleagues ensured publication of her unfinished book. By Rebecca Donner In Michelle de Kretser’s new novel, a young graduate student gets caught in the gap between ...

Beyond historically accurate medical procedures and story elements that never made it into Disney’s cheery 1950 “Cinderella” (which, of course, doesn’t include the stepsisters mutilating ...

Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and the host of Pop Culture Happy Hour. She began her professional life as an attorney. In time, however, her affection for writing, popular ...

In her new book, Cho Nam-Joo captures both the universality of sexism and the specificity of women’s experiences. When I was young and adrift, Thomas Mann’s novel gave me a sense of purpose.

What happens to Cinderella after she marries the prince? As a child, I was obsessed with this question. I watched the Disney cartoon almost daily, haunted by the movie’s final image of the ...