The World is a Fairy Ring
Feature Image: Fairy Resting on a Mushroom (1860), by Thomas HeatherleyThe house we lived in when I was a child had a storage cupboard...
Can Mushrooms Save the Planet?
Renowned mycologist Paul Stamets is, simply put, mad about mushrooms. From tame little grocery-store white buttons to flamboyant foraged chanterelles, there isn’t much that...
The Charismatic Mushroom
My husband and I live in a 125-year-old farmhouse where the land has been producing one major crop these days: Fungus. It is thriving....
Leafy Virtue
Over a decade ago, in light of many, many years of harassment, I underwent a dramatic transformation. Prior to this point, I was considered...
Manifest Your Personal Renaissance: A Powerful New Year Spell
Photography: Amanda Valentine
Makeup: Jessica Saint
Louis Armstrong’s soulful voice vibrates through the barge-board wood of my old 1898 Creole cottage as he sings “What a...
Silent No More: Rediscovering Black Presence in the Renaissance
Stephanie Levi-John as Lina from Starz’s The Spanish Princess.
Courtesy of Starz
Why are you going to the Renaissance Faire?” I’ve lost count of how many...
When Women Painted the Renaissance
They had names like Sofonisba and Lavinia and most of all Artemisia. They were brilliant and gifted and (sometimes)
ferocious—because they had to be, sure,...
The Good Housewife’s and Husbandman’s Guide to Faeries
It is my purpose to tell you about our English fairies so that you may appropriately honor them and avoid angering the Fair Folk,...
Warrior Queen
ELIZABETH EBSWORTH PHOTOGRAPHY
Her oath unbroken, sacrifice unspoken,
She hails the coming of winter.
The rule was golden, the summer beholden,
Until the green began to redden...
Night Magic: Interview with Author Leigh Ann Henion
Featured Image:
From the British Library archive / Bridgeman Images
The Night-Blowing Cereus (1807), by Robert Dunkarton
When we saw that New York Times best-selling writer Leigh...