Alice Hoffman's New Coven Is the Book Club Pick of the Season

Alice Hoffman, author of Practical Magic, has confirmed a hotly anticipated sequel called The Witches of Cambridge, discussing the novel at length with Vanity Fair. Hoffman told the magazine she believes every woman should have a coven — a circle of women who look out for one another, the bond her books have always circled back to. She also explained why her romantasy-adjacent novels stop short of the genre's usual explicit content, and spoke about her unease with artificial intelligence as part of the wider conversation. For Palm Beach readers who never put down their copy of Practical Magic, a return to that world is reason enough to clear a shelf.

With reporting from Vanity Fair.