Aiken and the Wolves

My essay on Joan Aiken is now available in the online Boston Review, where you can read it for free--
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR38.1/john_crowley_joan_aiken_wolves_fiction.php

-- though I'm sure the the editors would prefer you to buy a copy, or even a subscription, to their fine journal, full of information and other good things.

(I should point out that the title of the piece is not mine, and I don't think I would have given it one quite so contentious.)