“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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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Review: Divine Masculine Healing Oracle
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Alan U. Dalul reviews Christabel Jessica and Cecilia G.F.’s oracle deck, which focuses on masculine divinities from a variety of mythologies and traditions.
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“Ancient Splendor” brings Trajan’s artifacts to the US for the first time
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Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott reviews the new exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum, “Ancient Splendor: Roman Art in the Time of Trajan.”
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Review: The Torah in the Tarot
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Manny Moreno reviews Stav Appel’s boxed set from Ayin Press, which includes the Jean Noblet Tarot de Marseille alongside a startling argument that the Marseille Tarot tradition reflects Jewish symbolism transmitted during a time of antisemitic persecution.