I don’t know about you, but I am all here for the twenty-first century reclamation of the witch as a feminist icon. In a 2017 opinion piece for the New York Times, writer Lindy West (Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman, 2016) responded to the cries of Hollywood creeps and abusers who were calling the […]
In this week’s installment of Webcomics Wednesday, we’re taking to the sea! Marina Julia’s supernatural tale, The House on the Cliff, takes place in a picturesque oceanside town, sharply divided by the actions of one woman. Long ago, a witch emerged from the waves, bringing along her ample powers, as well as a team of […]
The book group crystal ball post of a couple of days ago is incomplete. One book I left out is A Discovery of Witches, bowing in February from debut novelist Debora Harkness. This rich and mesmerizing story of a scholar witch who tamps down her powers in pursuit of academic success and the vampire geneticist […]
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