The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/category/reviews)
“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.”
“‘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.”
Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott reviews Jeffrey E. Anderson’s study of the historical evidence for the theology, organization, and ritual practices of the Voodoo religion of the Mississippi River Valley in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
Stacy Psaros reviews the current exhibition at the Toledo Art Museum, which focuses on magic and curses in ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Mesopotamia.
Beatrix Kondo examines gender, power, and the lines drawn in Lee Knox Ostertag’s 2017 graphic novel “The Witch Boy.”
