Absinthe was a 19th century bestselling spirit, before the wine industry besmirched its reputation. Now the green stuff is back, along with many delicious ways to enjoy it.

The green fairy is dead. She's lying on the ground with a dagger in her heart. Standing beside her, a cleric indicates the time of the killing: midnight, October 7, 1910.

It’s true. Cincinnati had its devotees of “La Fee Verte,” the “Green Fairy” so beloved of habitués of the Parisian demi-monde. According to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette [4 February 1894]: ...

In an early edition of the Green Fairy Book, the only non-European tales included are from China, which was seen as a “civilized” nation in the Victorian era.

Nicknamed the Green Fairy for its most common hue, absinthe inspired Oscar Wilde, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Ernest Hemingway and many other authors and artists who found in it a ...

The Fairy Tale We’ve Been Retelling for 125 Years Every generation has an Oz story, but one retelling best captures what makes L. Frank Baum’s world sing. By Allegra Rosenberg ...