Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, by Rivka Galchen. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021) | amazon In 1616 the forces of the…
This is Part II of The Kabbalah and the Occult Tarot, which covers how Kabbalistic commentary joined esoteric interpretations of the tarot. Part I: Roots…
The Kabbalah & the Occult Tarot The mystical system called the Kabbalah is vast and elaborate, embracing the cosmos without and the cosmos within. To…
My review of Ben Hopkins’ novel Cathedral is posted at Historical Novel Society. Cathedral takes place in, as the author says, “the fictional medieval Rhineland city…
Something about palimpsests teases the imagination, with artists and observers discovering and creating them in different media. Following are palimpsests created by artists and by…
In a remote mountain village above the town of Como, two powerful women secured the fame of the “Popess.” Read part 3/3 on Rainer Maria…