Witchcraft and fascism collide in Jane Rawson's imaginative new novel

  • Written by: Brigid Magner, Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, RMIT University
Witchcraft and fascism collide in Jane Rawson's imaginative new novelThe Witch - Luis Ricardo Falero (1882)Public domain

In an age of polarisation, it’s instructive to return to the late 1930s, in the lead up to World War II, when the far left and far right were energised and prominent. In Australia, we tend to think that Nazi sympathisers didn’t exist, or were never significant, but in fact there were do...

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