This is a weekly column from freelancer Rowan Kaiser, which focuses on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity, and their inanity. It's the little ...

I remember making paper dolls from Sears catalogs. When a new Sears catalog arrived at our home, the old one was set aside, available for play. My sister and I would pour through it, looking for just ...

A good friend told me that she and some family members went to the movies to see the new “Barbie.” She shared that the movie was packed, and this was not a surprise because she was aware that it had ...

With August in full swing, the frenzy of summer activities starts to relax. The summer checklist is beginning to fill up ... vacation — check; summer camp — check; pool parties, sleepovers and ...

A slip of the scissors and off comes a foot. A nick and there goes a finger. A wrong snip and a tab that would have held up her dress disappears. Paper dolls, fragile though they were, they enticed us ...

Where flounder philosophized about time with a dreamy, childlike wistfulness, using sounds of running water, children playing — paper doll wrestles with the challenges of the present, unpacking abuse ...

Ann Siegal, who drove from Virginia to make the doll delivery, picks out some of her favorites for show-and-tell. Navigating a library of novels, textbooks, and encyclopedias is best conquered with a ...

Zelda Fitzgerald once gauged a publisher's interest in creating a collection filled with the striking paper dolls she made for her daughter, but the book she imagined never materialized. More than 70 ...