After three novels and 300 years' worth of plot, the Practical Magic series is coming to an end. In The Book of Magic, author Alice Hoffman picks up the story of the Owens family inside a library, ...

Alice Hoffman has written more than two dozen books, but her tales about the sorcery of the Owens sisters and their ilk (1995’s Practical Magic and 2017’s The Rules of Magic) remain her most enduring.

According to Alice Hoffman — the author of the 1995 novel of the same name — the Oscar winner reached out to her son when he was too sick to visit the set. “I don’t know how old he was at that time, ...