Stacy Psaros reviews a posthumous publication from Raven Grimassi, published through Crossed Crow Books with the aid of his wife, Stephanie Taylor.
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.”
Book Reviews
Overbooked: A Look at My Current Reading Pile
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Storm Faerywolf offers recommendations on a number of recently published, reissued, and forthcoming books, including titles by Jason Mankey, Janet Farrar, Chris Allaun, Jake Morningstar, Heron Michelle, and Kaelan Strouse.
Arts & Culture
The First Spell Is Silence: The Pagan Question of Withheld Knowledge
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“Almost every magical system in fiction has a rule about who is allowed to learn,” writes Beatrix Kondo. “What has been remarkable about fantasy over the past few decades is how many of those systems have stopped pretending this rule is natural.”
Arts & Culture
The Ink Has Always Been There: the Grammar of Exclusion in “Witch Hat Atelier”
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Beatrix Kondo examines Witch Hat Atelier, a manga and anime set in a world where magic is a craft that can be learned by anyone but has been carefully suppressed as “something you have to be born with” – and what that premise might say to modern Witches.
Arts & Culture
Caged and Dissected: The Witch Hunt Politics of “Thorn Season”
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“‘Shadow and Bone meets The Selection,'” the marketing promises, banking on glittering courts and will-they-won’t-they tension,” writes Beatrix Kondo in her analysis of the romantasy sensation. “What the book actually delivers is something else entirely—the first chapters of a feminist high fantasy saga with a queer and Pagan reading.”