It's possible that reading Jessa Crispin's new book The Dead Ladies Project is what prompted “A Sorta Fairytale” to take up residence in my brain this week. It's a tenuous connection, but both book ...

On the radio, “A Sorta Fairytale”—the first single off Tori Amos’s finest album in years—sounds overproduced and glossy, another too-well-fed visitor among all that overstuffed Top Forty fodder. As ...