Magic does not always arrive with spectacle. In magical realism, it slips quietly into everyday life. Ghosts talk, food carries emotions, and children hear voices across continents. This selection of ...

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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 ...

There’s a delightful mystery called “The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra” by Vaseem Khan that weaves in a touch of magical realism. Magical realism refers to a story that takes place in the ...

Russian novelist Nikolai Gogol once said: “The human obsession with purpose is merely a distraction from the absurdity of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was a time not so long ago when Latin American literature, as it appeared on college syllabi, in critical discourse, and in writers' own spheres of influence, summoned up the whimsical and ...

Movie and television actor Dylan McDermott will present his street photography exhibition, "Magic Realism," and appear as Artist in Attendance on Sunday, March 29, from 1 to 4 p.m. at Burns Gallery on ...