"...the double face of wonder"

I've raved about Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm elsewhere, and this article by Maria Tatar on Slate -- about both the film and the cultural impact of the work of the Brothers Grimm -- makes some fine points.  Authors invoked within include Tolkien, Woolf, Richard Wright, and John Updike; there are far worse ways one could spend five minutes than in reading it.