Arts & Culture
The Rule Nobody Questions
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Beatrix Kondo examines gender, power, and the lines drawn in Lee Knox Ostertag’s 2017 graphic novel “The Witch Boy.”
Arts & Culture
The Witch Who Was Always Near
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“A story set in Near becomes a mirror,” writes Beatrix Kondo, exploring folklore, fear, and the familiar stranger in V.E. Schwab’s novel “The Near Witch.” “What the mirror reflects is a community organized around the strategic management of its own fear.”
Arts & Culture
Beyond “Was She Really a Witch?”: Revisiting Margaret Atwood’s “My Evil Mother”
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“Contemporary reclamations of ‘witch’ as feminist identity tend toward celebration,” writes Beatrix Kondo, “which Atwood declines. What she offers instead is something harder and more useful: these practices functioned as survival apparatus for populations the official world refused to protect.”
Arts & Culture
Skincare as Sorcery: The Occult Economics of K-Beauty and Glass Skin Witchcraft
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“This is a grimoire,” writes Beatrix Kondo. “You must learn which extracts do what, which acids exfoliate, which peptides build collagen, which ferments penetrate deepest. You must study. You must practice. You must have faith.”