Over here, I look at the longest shared world story in Western history (or so I think), a little about why I personally never really got into Arthuriana, but love to pieces this new book, Lancelot: Her Story.

A look at one of the many recent iterations of Beauty and the Beast caused me to mull the persistence of this myth/fairy tale, how it's been interpreted, and what's going on in today's literary conversation over it ( Read more... )