Magical Realism. It’s one of those great literary terms that sounds both highly educated and also really cool. And, let’s be honest, magical realism is really cool, and anyone who disagrees has ...

Written in Urdu by Siddique Alam and translated by Jaideep Pandey, the novel is also an incisive dissection of the legal ...

Yesterday on Twitter, someone asked me the simple version of a larger point made in some angry e-mails about my “Winter’s Tale” review. Several people accused me outright of simply hating magic and ...

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In deciding how the magic worked, Castro Smith brought on the concept of ‘magical realism’ which gave the story a sense of Latin American magic, as opposed to European magic. DEADLINE: Where did the ...

In 1940s-era Latin America, a new genre of literature started to take off. Magic realism, initially inspired by the Surrealist art movement, started to gain major traction when Gabriel Garcia Marquez ...

In Knives Out, Marta Cabrera (Ana de Armas) becomes an agent of the film’s magical realism. Claire Folger/Lionsgate; photo-illustration by Eric Vilas-Boas/Observer Whether it takes the form of a ...

What will fiction be like in the Trump era?” one writer wondered eight years ago. Now we have the answer: not as fanciful as ...

Aditi Maheshwari is a freelance writer, and has been a student of Economics, Advertising, Marketing, Psychology and also of the Institute Of Company Secretaries Of India. She is a contributor to ...