M. Lucie Chin's The Fairy of Ku-She (1988) is an expert work of historical fantasy, a fascinating, achingly beautiful, and brilliantly conceived novel that intermixes Chinese history, mythology, and fairy tale in an impressive tapestry that offers a wide range of critiques of genre, gender, power, and social order.
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Ballantine Adult Fantasy: Reading “The Last Unicorn” by Peter S. Beagle
The first essay in Ballantine Adult Fantasy: A Reading Series, which looks at Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn (1968): a supremely beautiful, memorable, and critically energizing masterwork of fantasy.
Genre Fantasies 