What: 'Simple Works' by Linda Chamberlain, 'Richer Than Gold, The Fairy Tale Project' by Sara Urband Murphy When: Opening reception for Chamberlain is 5-7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8; opening reception ...

The fairy tale at the centre of Danish writer Jonas T. Bengtsson's fascinating third novel (his first to be translated into English) could be true. Told by a single father to his only son, it is ...

But it’s also about the ambiguities that cartoon fairy tales can’t handle, about death and the tendency of loved ones, as the Sondheim song goes, to “leave you, halfway through the wood.” ...