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A Story of Women and Power

The story of the occult is largely the story of women and power. Pick any era, pick your practice — Wicca, tarot, astrology, and magical herbalism, among others — and…

Still Alive

Back in her San Francisco bartending days, Rachel Kushner witnessed life in a way many of us never will. One night at the Warfield, a historic music venue, the Rolling…

A Great Southern Voice

Rick Bragg is one of the great Southern voices of our time, or any time. That much seems a statement of unassailable truth, in a moment when such things are…

The Past Rising Up

In Randall Kenan’s new story collection, If I Had Two Wings, men and women often find themselves in bewildering circumstances, caught up in twists of fate that demand a new…

A Sexy, Impressionistic Feast

Leesa Cross-Smith’s new book of short fiction, So We Can Glow, feels like a radical act of joy. On the whole, the collection is a sexy, impressionistic feast of feminine…

The Gift of the Magis

“I know what Daddy’s getting you for Christmas,” my daughter said in early December last year. “It’s kind of something for the whole family.” The author with her family I…

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