In 2012, readers around the world were intrigued to learn that a researcher in northern Bavaria had discovered hundreds of never-published fairy- and folktales collected by the 19th-century folklorist ...

As 2016, this year of upheavals, draws to a close, "Waves of anger and fear/ Circulate over the bright/ And darkened lands of the earth,/ Obsessing our private lives" (W.H. Auden). For many people, ...