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The three witches in ‘Macbeth’ – also known as the ‘weird,’ or ‘wyrd,’ sisters – are prophetesses who often do the opposite of what’s expected of them. Royal Shakespeare Company Collection

In praise of the weird

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan University

Despite feeling some schadenfreude at watching politicians squirm over being derided as such, a scholar of speculative fiction wants to keep America weird.

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