SOURCE: “Wicked Witches of the North,” in New Republic, June 4, 1984, pp. 28–9.
In the following review, Godwin praises Updike's prose and wit in The Witches of Eastwick, but faults the novel for what she perceives as a lack of intellectual depth.
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