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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…