When one imagines a princess, they're likely to meet with two images: the classic princess in a tower who needs rescuing from a gallant prince, or a princess who prefers doing the rescuing herself.

My taste in books has shifted a lot over the years—I used to reread the Divergent series, like, minimum twice a year—but the one thing that has never changed is my love for fantasy. Since I first ...

Long before fantasy became a publishing category, stories of gods, monsters, and magical worlds already existed in myth and epic poetry, most famously in works like Homer’s The Odyssey. Greek ...