witches

How Witches Shifted from Daily Healers to Heretics and Dangerous Women Under Christian Rule

Marion Gibson on Why Public Perceptions of Witchcraft Changed in the 15th Century

 
By Marion Gibson  January 22, 2024
Witches

We Are All Witches: Elizabeth Willis and Nancy Bowen on the Contemporary Echoes of Centuries-Old Fears

By E. Tracy Grinnell  December 21, 2023
Witches

A Look Inside the 17th-Century Witch Trials of the Arctic Circle

By Chelsea Iversen  December 19, 2023
Reading Lists

Dancing with the Goddess and Drawing Down the Moon: A Reading List for Modern Witches

By Diana Helmuth  October 31, 2023
It's Magic

Magic to Serve, Not Solve, a Story: KJ Dell’Antonia on Magical Rules in Literature

By KJ Dell'Antonia  October 25, 2023
Paperbacks

24 books finally out in paperback this September.

By Gabrielle Bellot  August 31, 2023
Witches

Mundane Evil: An Overview of Witches and Puritans in 1630s New England

By Malcolm Gaskill  November 1, 2022
The Hub

Why are we all so into witches right now?

By Molly Odintz  July 13, 2022
Singer Songwriters

Jenny Hval and Alexandra Kleeman Talk Magic Words, Witch Melodies, and Norwegian Black Metal Scene

By Alexandra Kleeman  October 30, 2020
Movies

The Witches looks just as zany as any late-1990s Disney Halloween movie.

By Aaron Robertson  October 2, 2020
The Hub

Make some midnight margaritas because Practical Magic turns 25 today!

By Katie Yee  June 18, 2020
Witches

On a New Generation of Villainous Women, From Witches to Wicked Stepmothers

By Alexis Gunderson  May 16, 2019
Essay

In Gratitude for the Fierce Women of the World

By Laird Hunt  October 29, 2018
Feature

Shirley Jackson: Possibly a Witch, Definitely Played the Zither

By Emily Temple  August 8, 2018
Essay

If These Are the End Times, Don’t Waste Your Time Texting

By Massoud Hayoun  June 22, 2018
Feature

25 of the Most Expensive Books You Can Buy on the Internet

By Emily Temple  March 22, 2018
Excerpts

A Holy Terror, A Common Scold, and the First Feminist Blogger

By Jeff Biggers  November 10, 2017
Excerpts

Literary Witches, From Angela Carter to Zora Neale Hurston

By Taisia Kitaiskaia and Katy Horan  October 31, 2017
Personal Essay

How the Witchcraft of Clarice Lispector Saved My Life

By Veronica Esposito  July 25, 2017
Excerpts

The Witches of Suburbia

By Willem De Blécourt  April 14, 2017
Deep Dive

Hysteria, Witches, and The Wandering Uterus: A Brief History

By Terri Kapsalis  April 5, 2017
What to Read

10 Literary Witches To Hex Trump

By Emily Temple  March 24, 2017
Feature

Happy 100th Birthday, Shirley Jackson!

By Literary Hub  December 14, 2016
Biography

Shirley Jackson Wasn’t Actually a Witch

By Ruth Franklin  September 28, 2016
Profile

When a Descendent of Witch Hunters Writes a Novel About Salem

By Matthew Daddona  August 8, 2016
Essay

Witches, Demons, Mystics: When Writers Cross the Supernatural Line

By Tobias Carroll  October 30, 2015
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