March 2024 Issue Dmitri Levitin Sources & Sorcery Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa By Anthony Grafton LR
November 2021 Issue Edward Vallance The Trials of Goody Parsons The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World By Malcolm Gaskill LR
April 2020 Issue Dmitri Levitin The Mage of Reason The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment By Michael Hunter
February 2019 Issue Graham Seal Shamans in Arms A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War By Owen Davies LR
May 1999 Issue James Sharpe Knowledge and Truth Reading Witchcraft: Stories of Early English Witches By Marion Gibson LR
August 2017 Issue Tracy Borman Spellbound The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present By Ronald Hutton
August 1994 Issue Randy Lee Cutler Tales of Perjury Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of 1692 By Bernard Rosenthal LR
March 1992 Issue Ann Geneva Nancy Reagan was Following an Ancient Tradition Courting Disaster: Astrology at the English Court and University in the Later Middle Ages By Hilary M Carey LR
November 2008 Issue Anne Somerset Trust Not the Physician The Sorcerer’s Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England By Alec Ryrie LR
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