fairy tales

Into the Woods

The Tangled Woods of the Psyche: Ellen Handler Spitz on Sondheim and Lapine’s Into the Woods

March 23, 2021 Nicole Asquith 3 Comments

I’m excited to present the second episode in our series on the forest in fiction! Given our theme, I felt there had to be an episode on fairy tales, and I wanted to pick up a thread from my episode with fairy-tale specialist Maria Tatar on the Wolf in the Woods: the connection made by…

The Forests of Our Imagination – Intro

February 19, 2021 Nicole Asquith 0 Comments

Whenever we enter a fictional forest – whether in a film, a novel or a fairy tale – we know we’re bound for a story of adventure, possibly of danger, magic or transformation. Why is the forest such an evocative place in our stories? What does it stand for? And what does the imagined forest…