There's a well-known Russian folktale, "Snegurochka," that tells the story of an elderly couple who yearn to have a child; they create a little girl out of snow, and she comes to life. In her novel ...

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Over twenty years into her tenure as the poetic, canonical singer-songwriter of contemporary R&B, Alicia Keys is still turning corners in her music career. The classically-trained artist began ...