"There's just nothing like it." For thousands of years, a mysterious chalk figure measuring more than 360 feet across has been emblazoned on a hillside in Uffington, England. Known as the Uffington ...

How feminism and debates about women riding horses helped produce first, horse-girl stories, and then dragon-babe fiction.

Jane Harrington, who teaches creative writing at Washington and Lee University, is the author of “In Circling Flight,” ...