In "Magic Lessons" (Simon & Schuster, a division of ViacomCBS), a prequel to "Practical Magic" and "The Rules of Magic," author Alice Hoffman tells the story of the origins of the Owens family's ...

Given her practical nature, it seems ironic that novelist Alice Hoffman sprinkles magical realism through most of her novels. There’s an abundance of it in her new “Magic Lessons,” the prequel to 1995 ...

Alice Hoffman has written more than two dozen books, but her tales about the sorcery of the Owens sisters and their ilk (1995’s Practical Magic and 2017’s The Rules of Magic) remain her most enduring.

It was a time of epidemics, magical thinking, fearmongering, violence, vengeance, and the demonization of women who dare to speak out. In a novel with eerie parallels to the present day, Alice Hoffman ...

If you’re a fan of ’90s movies, you’re likely familiar with the 1998 film “Practical Magic,” which starred Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as witchy sisters Gillian and Sally, and Stockard Channing ...

With this moving novel, Hoffman has written a story about a family attacked by tragedy, and has given it a larger relevance by confronting one of the most frightening issues of our times. The Farrells ...

Given her practical nature, it seems ironic that novelist Alice Hoffman sprinkles magical realism through most of her novels. There’s an abundance of it in her new “Magic Lessons,” the prequel to 1995 ...