Arts & Culture
Haunted by the Occult
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Erick DuPree on what Gothic novels can teach us about society, then and now.
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“Lessons in Magic and Disaster” is this fall’s must-read Witchy book
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“Lessons in Magic and Disaster deals better with what it is to be a Witch than almost any of the how-to manuals that have come out since the ‘90s renaissance,” writes Meg Elison, reviewing the newest book by Charlie Jane Anders.
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Once Upon a Place: The magic of space in fairy tales
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Alan U. Dalul reviews “Once Upon a Place: Forests, Caverns & Other Places of Transformation in Myths, Fairy Tales & Film” by by Holly Bellebuono with a foreword by Jack Zipes.
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Midgardsblot 2025: Return to the Blot-Mounds
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Lyonel Perabo makes his pilgrimage to the 2025 Midgardsblot festival, partaking in a sweeping day filled with ritual, scholarship, and the heaviest metal to be found anywhere in Scandinavia.
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The Ritual Silo: inside James Turrell’s C.A.V.U. at dusk
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“Nobody shushed the room. The lower house lights did not dim. There was no call to order. Energy simply shifted between us and within us, and the hush was total.” Meg Elison writes of her magical experience inside the Skyspace installation at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.