I need a myth fix from time to time. When I feel fragile or drained of energy for whatever reason, I reach for a book of magical realism to get me through the doldrums. Myra Dutton is the author of ...

Science fiction and magic realism almost play the same game with the human imagination that these make the human imagination undergo a suspension of disbelief and so the fictional becomes temporarily ...

How much emphasis is placed on each element varies dramatically between writers and stories. From the moment I discovered these books I loved them, and quickly became hooked on writing them. Other ...

The technique of magic realism is a postmodern trait and has been practiced by many including Margaret Atwood in her The Blind Assassin and Gabriel Garcia in his One a hundred Years of Solitude. The ...

Linger around most any southern small-town restaurant, bar, hardware store or other gathering place for local folk and you are likely to become privy to a story or two told in such a wildly ...

Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward’s “Let Us Descend” is a searing and lyrical historical novel that voyages through the antebellum South in a stunning adaptation of Dante’s “Inferno” — ...

“We have always been interested in immersive theater, ways you can kind of surround the audience with the world of the play,” says Jenny McConnell Frederick, who founded and runs Rorschach Theatre ...

Gabriel García Márquez and his spell of magical realism. We’ll cast it again, in remembrance. In this 2003 photo released by the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI), Colombian Nobel ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Books. Followed categories will be added to My News. How much emphasis is placed on each element varies dramatically between writers and stories. From the moment I ...