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If you want to truly embrace the terror and beauty of winter, a Russian-inflected modern folktale should do the trick. In Katherine Arden’s The Bear and the Nightingale we meet Vasilisa Petrovna, who has no wish to marry. She grew up on tales of Frost Demons, rusalka, all that is wild and magical in the dark and frozen forests—including the great Bear, who is gathering his power in the darkness beyond the village. Enter the stepmother, who agrees with the village priests that following the...

This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. Every year I dread winter, but this year seems particularly perilous. In the distance I hear rumblings of a vaccine, but I know I will not get a jab in the arm until the spring or summer. So my winter will be spent inside and at home in cold and snowy Wisconsin. I don’t like snow and I don’t like the cold, but somehow I’ve been cursed to live in the Midwest where the weather never seems...