{"id":5127,"date":"2021-06-05T09:12:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T14:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5127"},"modified":"2021-06-05T09:13:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T14:13:53","slug":"review-of-witch-novel-prompts-another-updike-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2021\/06\/05\/review-of-witch-novel-prompts-another-updike-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of witch novel prompts another Updike comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In Wyatt Mason<\/strong>‘s June 4 Wall Street Journal<\/em> review<\/a> of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch<\/em><\/a>, the reviewer praised author Rivka Galchen by comparing her novel to what he feels are less successful witch-driven narratives:<\/p>\n

“High-art witch stories have tended to fare less well, the metaphorical potential of the material turning art into a civics class. Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible<\/em> is the worst of these, so clearly an allegory for Wrongful Persecution by the Powerful. It is almost tied for badness with John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick<\/em>, a satire of male power (creep undone by vengeful coven) that these days is hard not to read as a male fantasy about a four-way with a man in the middle.”<\/p>\n

If you’re going to be criticized, there’s worse company to be in than Arthur Miller’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Wyatt Mason‘s June 4 Wall Street Journal review of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, the reviewer praised author Rivka Galchen by comparing her novel to what he feels are less successful witch-driven narratives: “High-art witch stories have … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updike-in-context"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5130,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions\/5130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}