A team of anthropologists found 35 versions of the fairy tale from as far afield as Africa, China (where the wolf is a tiger) and Iran (where the titular child is a boy), and, using a tree-of-life style of taxonomy, traced the story’s origins to a Greek fable from the age of Aesop.
Tag: 09.05.09
In Tweets And Texts, Poetry Is Thriving
“[P]oets are migrating to the Web and using it in entirely new ways, that almost changes the way that they think of poetry in the first place.” At the same time, they’re making it clear that tweets, texts and instant messages aren’t shallow by nature.
Where Are All The Broadway Moms?
“With so many metaphoric families forming and disbanding every day in the world of theater, the old-fashioned kind seems to have little space to flourish.” Parents of small children don’t find much support.
Why Annie Leibovitz Could Lose The Rights To All Her Work
“Some experts say filing for bankruptcy reorganization could be the best option for Leibovitz, 59, who has put up as collateral her three historic Greenwich Village townhouses, an upstate property and work.”