I’ve been thinking lately of the fable of the ant and the grasshopper — you know the one, it’s one of hundreds of stories written or compiled by Aesop, a Greek storyteller who lived about 2,500 years ...

A musical Grasshopper continues to play his violin while the Ant works hard to prepare for the winter. Later as winter arrives Grasshopper realizes he is not ready for winter and falls ill.

Sam Sacks’s review of “Aesop’s Fables” (Books, Nov. 2) brings to mind a modern twist on an old classic: In the summer, the ants worked and saved, while the grasshoppers played. The ants warned that ...