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Taylor Swift reimagines the fate of the tragic “Hamlet” heroine on her new album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” But did she really need saving? By Lindsay Zoladz “No one likes a mad woman,” Taylor Swift ...

Welcome to The A.V. Club’s monthly comics preview, where we recommend new books to check out over the next few weeks. This month, we’ve got five exciting picks, including a YA take on a Norwegian ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The album sometimes does fit that description—especially on the relatively strong, if unexpectedly downcast, opening three songs. “The Fate of Ophelia” pairs ...

Amelia Earhart, Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Wizard of Oz all have links to Kansas towns that the WorldAtlas website describes as being like something out of a fairy tale. An article the site ...

The WorldAtlas website named seven small Kansas towns as being like something out of a fairy tale. The towns are known for their connections to figures who include Amelia Earhart and Dwight D.

The Oscar winner left Hollywood at 26 years old and married Prince Rainier III of Monaco in 1956 United Archives via Getty In 1982, Grace Kelly sat down for an interview with PEOPLE five months before ...

“I had been curious about the Irish side of my biracial family heritage,” says Ken Yoshikawa, author of From a Hole in the Ground, debuting Sept. 27 at Northwest Children’s Theater. “So I leapt at the ...

Mike Flynt rejoined his Texas college football team 35 years later. The film is a faith-based heart-tugger that plays this do-over as a life metaphor. The director Rod Lurie has had an eclectic career ...

Mike White did not want to be a coach. And it was only by happenstance that Joe Robinette joined the Maryville staff. Yet more than 25 years later, the two coaches, whether reluctant to start or an ...

Island castles, storybook forests and quaint villages. Some magical spots in New York feel like they are straight from a fairy tale. The World Atlas, a website that publishes content about resources ...

Three mid-Hudson Valley municipalities have been dubbed "fairy-tale small towns." World Atlas crowned Beacon, Kingston and New Paltz with the charming title, alongside five other municipalities across ...