The power of magical realism as a mode of storytelling is that it allows a given piece of fiction to have one foot in the real world and the other in the fantastic. Sometimes, this is subtle ...

are one example of a motif Emory has adorned in the past, and can be seen on the wall leading to the Great Gallery and the Magical Realism exhibit. Emory also likes exaggerated proportions or ...

All We Imagine as Light, directed by Payal Kapadia, is making waves globally, with a Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film and historic Golden Globe nominations for Best ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s not all about butterflies and levitation. Some people I know recoil at the mention of the fictional ...

The Chilean-American writer has had an illustrious career of over four decades, and her name has become synonymous with magical realism and powerful narratives that blend reality with mystical and ...

Good grief! Armstrong calls this unexpected plot “psy-fy,” but I call it magical realism, as in the great novels of the period, 100 Years of Solitude and Midnight’s Children. It seems totally right ...

‘Magical Realism’ is rooted in personal experiences and symbolism. Birds are her metaphors for the lives of women—always active, always in motion, and seeking freedom. Birds, I consider as ...

Pedro Pramo is a slip of a novel that can't sustain itself at such a great length... This is a magical realism movie that faithfully captures the realism but ditches the magic at every possible ...

But her legacy as the godmother of Hong Kong magical realism—still a dominant form ... And while tuberculosis, for example, was considered romantic and literary, cancer was emphatically not.

“A concert is no good unless there’s some magic,” Jarvis Cocker told ... He introduced “Babies” as an example of “the gritty realism of South Yorkshire.” On Friday, he delivered ...