Kathleen Kent and Laird Hunt on Witches and Wickedness in American History and Literature
When I asked my grandmother if Martha Carrier had truly been a witch, she told me, “There are no such things as witches, Sweetheart, just ferocious women.”
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The Millions Top 10
Changing Our Narratives through ‘Days of Our Lives’
I couldn’t help imagining a lost episode of Days of Our Lives where Nicole bugs Donald Trump, hears what he said about grabbing women, and plots a revenge.
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Tree Time and Mortality in the Eyes of Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Powers, and Ursula K. Le Guin
Human stories mix, meander, and sputter in the understory of a larger life always proliferating above our heads, rooted sprawling under our feet.
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A Melancholy Tightrope Act: The Beautiful Spectacle of Sabrina Orah Mark’s ‘Wild Milk’
One moment you’re arrested by Mark’s wit—her penchant for puns and malaprops—and the next you’re soaring into the visionary territory of mystic literature.
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Reading Vonnegut to Cope with Death
“So it goes.” It bespeaks the way I had always approached death—sometimes scratching my head, sometimes with cynicism, and sometimes with a shrug.
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Noir Is All About Bad Decisions: The Millions Interviews William Boyle
You have the dream of the thing, which turns out to be totally misguided, and then you have to deal with the blowback, which is very real.
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To Rip It Up and Start Again: Jeff Jackson’s ‘Destroy All Monsters’
Is this the dormant spirit of rock and roll, come to wreak vengeance on its halfhearted acolytes for their lack of faith?
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