With Two New Movies, Snow White’s Never Been More Popular. Why Now?

“After decades of the cold shoulder, why is Snow White suddenly white hot? Maria Tartar is a Harvard professor with an expertise in fairytales. ‘It may be that there is something about the boomer anxiety about aging that is renewing our interest in Snow White,’ she says. ‘In the Disney film, there’s that terrible moment, that terrifying moment when the Wicked Queen drinks the potion, turns into an old hag, and we see the aging process.'”

Adrienne Rich Was More Than A Poet Of Rage (But She Was Good At That Too)

“While Adrienne Rich, who died on Tuesday at 82, was indeed an inspiring cultural force, she was at bottom a writer of poems. And the defiant political stands for which she became famous are entirely consistent with that identity and its long American heritage. (John Greenleaf Whittier was inveighing against slavery in his poems at considerable personal risk right before the Civil War.) But for Ms. Rich, as for any real poet, the question is always: How do we read her work not as social history, but as poetry?”