Living the Fairy-Tale Life: Paula Rego, Psychoanalysis, Taking Flight (opens in new tab)

Whether we go to therapy or art or other ritualistic practices that prise open the dark stories dancing around in us all, we end up in the same strange place, I think, with versions of these characters and their stories. I wrote my novel as my own kind of fairy tale, simply because life itself is full of these magical, strange characters — but it was not until coming face to face with Rego’s fairy tales that I understood the point of it all — to allow the weirdness, however discomforting. To ...