Resonance with Evil: Displacement, Physicality, and the Uncanniness of Witchcraft: Cate Richards’s “Turnips, Like Skulls, Are Heaped House High” by Amber Rose Cederström
Scholars of historical witchcraft occasionally fall prey to a tendency towards dry recitation of reconstructed facts, interpreting them narrowly within the confines of their particular disciplines—whether history, folklore, sociology, and so on. Especially for...
Hogarth at Pitzhanger: Artist Faisal Abdu’Allah on cutting hair at new exhibition about life in London by Samuel Fishwick
Ceci n’est pas un haircut. On the one hand, Faisal Abdu’Allah’s Live Salon is one of the best trims in town (also, free), and familiar territory: the barber’s chair, the unfurling of the cape, the snicker-snack of scissors. Yet in place of a reliable mirror to keep an...