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Language Is the Spell: Kathryn Nuernberger’s The Witch of Eye

  • Geri Lipschultz
  • April 7, 2021
A compendium of pungent and poignant biographical narratives of numerous so-called witches, The Witch of Eye is difficult to put down.
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FUNNY WOMEN: Medieval Witch Confession or Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory?

  • Kathryn Nuernberger
  • February 25, 2021
Witches are real.
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Girl Power: Quan Barry’s We Ride Upon Sticks

  • Andrew McKernan
  • September 16, 2020
But this is We Ride Upon Sticks: someone’s perm falls out, someone becomes prom queen.
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Your Patriotism Isn’t Love, It’s Blindness

  • Abraham A. Joven
  • July 31, 2017
Love of country, some argue. With their boots firmly planted in my chest as I struggle to protest. No, that is not love, but blindness.
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Song of the Day: “Burn the Witch”

  • Max Gray
  • September 22, 2016
Radiohead is no stranger to anxiety. A tense tone—like a taut cord reverberating—runs through the high-energy opener “Burn the Witch,” from their latest record, A Moon Shaped Pool. Thom Yorke’s delicate wail floats…
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Make Me Believe

  • Kyle Williams
  • July 25, 2016
The response to [the Handmaid’s Tale] was interesting. The English, who had already had their religious civil war, said, “Jolly good yarn.” The Canadians in their nervous way, said, “Could…
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Why We Love Witches

  • Katie O'Brien
  • July 22, 2016
At The Establishment, Annie Theriault discusses the allure of witches and witchcraft for girls that has lingered since the 17th century, musing on how witches both subvert and uphold gender…
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Witchery and Wherefore

  • Kyle Williams
  • April 25, 2016
One thing that has become clearer and clearer in recent years is that violent extremisms are not created in a vacuum, but rather by human beings whose moral thresholds have been…
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Who Hunts the Witch Hunters?

  • Michelle Vider
  • November 2, 2015
Rachel Kincaid writes for Autostraddle on the twisted power dynamics inherent in witch trials, both in history and fiction, in the past and in the present day: But what rings…
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Witch Hunts, Past and Present

  • Dinah Fay
  • October 8, 2014
In the new Penguin Book of Witches, Katherine Howe assembles documents from three centuries of witch hunts—including arrest warrants, trial transcripts, and even apologies from a judge and jury in…
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The Repercussions of Modern-Day Witch Trials

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • January 13, 2014
We like to think mass hysteria about black magic in the US died with the Salem witch trials, but 300 years afterward, starting in the 1980s, childcare providers across the…
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