Major Arcana

A student’s public suicide on a university campus sets the stage for a tragic explosion that spans 50 years of American history. Simon Magnus, a comic-book writer who transfigures popular culture and gender activism, and Ash del Greco, an online occultist who believes mind over matter is superior, are among the characters in this work of fiction that touches on themes of death, magic, the metaphysical, love, and death. The book goes back and forth between the then present and flashbacks. This book, originally serialized on the author’s Substack newsletter, explores America’s inner life and moral history from coast to coast and across two generations through the transformative power of popular culture.