Bambi: cute, lovable, vulnerable ... or a dark parable of antisemitic terror?
A new translation of Felix Salten’s 1923 novel reasserts its original message that warns of Jewish persecution
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A new translation of Felix Salten’s 1923 novel reasserts its original message that warns of Jewish persecution
D’Aulnoy’s heroines run away from home, crossdress, shape-shift; they outwit, slay, rescue, lead.
"Cinderella story" has referred to a rags-to-riches arc since the mid-19th century. It's a made-up phrase – but we all know what it means.
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Wild Visionary reconsiders Maurice Sendak's life and work in the context of his experience as a Jewish gay man. Maurice (Moishe) Bernard Sendak (1928–2012) was a fierce, romantic, and shockingly funny truth seeker who intervened in modern literature and culture. Raising the stakes of children's books, Sendak painted childhood with the dark realism and wild imagination of his own sensitive inner child, drawing on the queer and Yiddish sensibilities that shaped his singular voice. Interweaving literary biography and cultural history, Golan Y. Moskowitz follows Sendak from his parents' Brookly...