Tag: halloween

Doree Shafrir reflects on how Halloween changed for her after struggling with infertility.

A complicated racial anxiety rests at the heart of American entertainment.

Horror movies give more screen time to strong female characters and attract a large female audience. But few female filmmakers get to work on them.

Boo! Read these stories about the scariest weekend of the year while getting over your candy hangovers.

“Halloween, All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days represent a friendly (if bony, skeletal) handshake between Paganism and Christianity.”

Even as Starbucks switches to its Red Cup holiday menu and the radio plays Christmas music, Halloween tugs at the coattails of my subconscious. To honor our dearly departed All Hallows’ Eve, here are four pieces about witchcraft in the United States and abroad.

“In the days before this Halloween, it was especially hard for me to avoid interpreting its elements too bluntly. If you have cancer, if you’ve had it for a while, at some point you start really seeing all those skulls and skeletons and Styrofoam headstones, all those children in hooded capes, bearing scythes on their […]