As a little girl, Anya Bergman always wanted to be a priest, and was horrified to learn that the role was only for men. “It made no sense to me,” she says. “It still doesn’t and it was probably at that moment that I first began to question the patriarchy.”
These questions have continued to influence Bergman’s work as an author. Her new novel, The Witches of Vardø, is a feminist retelling of history set ...