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Fairytales Against the Machine
One of the best ways to be truly human and resist becoming machines ourselves is to read fairytales — and here’s a few to start with
 • Susanna Schwartz
“There’s No Place Like Home”
The mantra of the American fairytale, MGM’s “Wizard of Oz,” and why it matters to me as an Orthodox Christian
 • Susanna Schwartz
The Wizard of Oz has never been a good guy
The Wizard’s Emerald City has always been the Machine — and here, I am reminded, “Put not your trust in princes, in sons of men, in whom there is no…
 • Susanna Schwartz
Wagner’s “Siegfried” as Archetype of Evil in Anna Vander Wall’s “Death & Devices”
In Anna Vander Wall’s new novel “Death & Devices,” it’s very telling that a particular character is listening to “Siegfried”
 • Susanna Schwartz
Death & Devices: A spiritual successor to The Silver Chair, Frankenstein, and Harry Potter and the Half Blood-Prince
In praise of Anna Vander Wall’s brilliant debut novel, Death & Devices, launching today
 • Susanna Schwartz
The Gospel in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty
I have a soft spot in my heart for the Disney versions of certain stories — Sleeping Beauty first among them
 • Susanna Schwartz
The Sun King, the Moon Queen, and CS Lewis’ “The Planets”
The love story between King Endymion (Tuxedo Mask) and Neo-Queen Serenity (Sailor Moon) has medieval cosmological resonances
 • Susanna Schwartz
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