Deborah Harkness: A Discovery of Witches Review

While tales of witches, vampires and demons have been haunting literature for more than a millennium, these otherworldly creatures remain trending topics in American pop culture. Today’s vampires are sexy leading men—albeit a bit moody— and the witches are a far cry from the weird sisters who incant “double, double toil and trouble” around a cauldron in __Macbeth__. In fact, witches (the good ones, at least) have now supplanted the fair maidens and princesses in fairy tales.  read more