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.
Arts & Culture
Classics of Pagan Cinema: I Married a Witch
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“The witch in this story does not try to make it look natural,” writes Meg Elison of this 1942 classic. “She doesn’t play fair, split the difference, or win graciously for the sake of appearances. She wins utterly.”
Arts & Culture
Tarot at My Table and in Popular Culture
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“As I dig deeper into cartomancy,” writes Meg Elison, “I remember all the times that the dread revelations of the cards have shown up in stories I’ve loved. Tarot is often misused, represented not only inaccurately, but incorrectly.”
Arts & Culture
Classics of Pagan Cinema: Agora
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“We have no record from Hypatia about the circumstances of her life,” writes Meg Elison in her review of the 2009 film about the ancient Roman philosoher. “Letters written to her by men are preserved; none of her letters to them remain.”