Arts & Culture
Classics of Pagan Cinema: The Duel of the Suspiras
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Meg Elison reviews the 1977 and 2018 iterations of Suspiria, two films that tell the same story of dance and witchcraft in diametrically opposed ways.
Arts & Culture
Nostalgia is a Curse
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“I would warn you that there will be spoilers,” writes Meg Elison in her review of the new film Practical Magic 2, “but there doesn’t seem to be much point as the sequel retells the same story as the original.”
Arts & Culture
The Egypt Game: Indirectly Teaching Kids to be Pagans Since 1967
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“Children make up rituals,” writes Meg Elison in this retrospective on Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s novel. “They make up stories. Like the kids in The Egypt Game, they make up religion, even if their parents assure them that they have religion at home.”
Arts & Culture
Tarot! at the Morgan Library
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“If someone were trying to trap me,” writes Meg Elison in her review of the exhibit, “one of the surest ways would be to put up a sign to say there’s a show focused on tarot inside this building, this cardboard box, this tiger pit. This thing is a Witch magnet.”
Arts & Culture
“Shape of Dreams” shows Carrington’s surreal dreamscape in the third dimension
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Meg Elison reviews the exhibition of the surrealist artist Leonora Carrington’s sculpture currently on display at L’SPACE gallery in New York City.