The Russian author of "Crime and Punishment" thought plain-old realism was not good enough in art. Realism, he believed, must ...

Do your kids love magical realism middle grade books? Magical realism books for tweens are realistic (ish) stories with magical elements. And it’s not just for Latin American literature, either ...

Explore the literary world of magical realism as Performing Arts and Culture Program Manager Kaitlyn Ellison shares some of her favorite authors and the mythos they have created.

Aesthetics and Politics of Magic in Literature and Media. From times immemorial, magic has been a foundational, albeit elusive component of societies. Magic infused the popular scene in the 20th ...

As a literary genre, magical realism pits Western ideals of reality and single-person accounts against indigenous and plurality history.

Some say he wanted to provide a guide to his novels, a self-exegesis to the many works written in a literary style known as magical realism, which features a realistic narrative interlaced with ...

I really wanted to make it sound like this idea of magical realism in literature, which is like another world beyond this world.

National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward comes to Decatur to discuss her new book "Let Us Descend," a retelling of Dante's "Inferno' as a slave narrative.

Released in 1999, The Green Mile is perhaps the most prominent example of magical realism in US cinema. The film mixes ...

Celebrating Magical Realism and Fantasy in Dickinson Steinfall continues with a celebration of magic in surprising places.

A genre most associated with literature, magical realism uses the real world as a foundation, but with a distinct air of the magical or fantastical.