fables

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“The Wayfinder” combines religious myths, ecological fables and nationalist origin stories into a thrilling hero’s quest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

"The great thing about these movies is that they are like fables," Byron Howard, one of the two directors, told AFP in Los Angeles.

From Barron's • Nov. 25, 2025

We’ve long been sold fables about robots yearning to be more human — to love us, guard us and sympathize with us before replacing us.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025

The new book’s mostly-pictures-with-some-words approach is a return to Brown’s earlier work when he was creating charming fables for toddlers about our sometimes fraught, sometimes empathetic attitude toward nature.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025

‘Do you know why, Aragorn? What are the fables of the forest that Boromir had heard?’

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien