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Books About Spiritual Gifts

November 3, 2025

Mediumship 101 Have you ever wondered what the origin story of a medium looks like? For most, the ability to communicate and interpret messages from the dead began in childhood. For others, it takes major life milestones or traumatic events for gifts to begin taking shape. There’s no one size fits all way to become […]

How to Spot a Witch

October 30, 2025

Culture & Magic

We have a bone to pick with Roald Dahl. It’s not that we don’t love his mischievous, real-world tale of witches lurking in 1980s England — we do. The Witches is a classic. It’s suspenseful, adventurous, and filled with danger and vivid imagery. But Dahl’s witches are bald, clawed, square-footed, and “allergic” to children. They’re […]

Books Like Harry Potter for Adults

October 27, 2025

Book Recommendations

Toto, I don’t think we’re in Hogwarts anymore. Hogwarts is over, for a variety of reasons (i.e. J.K. Rowling’s political views, and the fact that it’s been a minute since Harry Potter was novel). The books are distant childhood memories and the movies are outdated and overplayed (especially around Christmas–have you noticed?). Regardless of how […]

The Best Magical Realism Books of All Time

October 21, 2025

Book Recommendations | Books About Magic | Featured Reads

Magical realism is when elements of the fantastic, the otherworldly, the “unreal” slip into day-to-day life. “Unreal” is in quotes because reality is subjective, and good literature’s purpose is to present a variety of perspectives and challenge our notion of what’s “normal” and “accepted.” When used like a lens with a blurring effect, magical realism […]

The Best Snow White Retellings

October 2, 2025

Book Recommendations | Books About Magic

Disney’s recent release of the live-action Snow White has us reflecting on the age-old tale of beauty, moral goodness, and purity. As Maria Tatar points out in The Classic Fairy Tales (Norton, 2nd edition, 2017), nearly every critical interpretation of the tale “identifies a stable core that turns on some kind of rivalry between mother […]

The Best Magical Historical Fiction Books

September 29, 2025

Book Recommendations | Featured Reads

In magical realism, otherworldly elements often highlight political tensions, injustice, and oppression. Protagonists (and authors, for that matter) lean on magic as a coping mechanism to escape or re-contextualize the brutalities and all-too-familiar discrimination of the past, doing away with romanticized notions of bygone eras. When authors dive into magical historical fiction, the real or […]

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