On its surface, The Maiden and Her Monster is a sapphic fantasy retelling of the old Czech folktale of The Golem of Prague. Malka, as the village healer’s eldest daughter (and assistant, and second mother to her younger sisters, and professional rage machine), knows about the darkness in the woods; young women go in and they don’t come out. (Meanwhile drunken men go in and they mostly come back; the reasoning for this is barely explained except for “men are garbage”). But the Ozmini Church […]