The Witches of Eastwick is probably my all-time favorite novel-but it's an extremely problematic fave.It's a John Updike novel, after all, and Updike was...not great when it came to depictions of women or queer people, or really anyone other than straight cis white men.He wrote a notoriously homophobic review of out author Andrew Hollinghurst's novel The Spell, and The Witches of Eastwick was essentially written as a response to his feminist critics who objected to the portrayals of female characters as merely wives, mistresses, and generally as characters who exist only in relation to the male protagonists in much of his work.
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