Literary realism is dead Zadie Smith's "NW" charts a bold new path for the novel and offers its readers a unique brand of "authenticity" ...

In literary realism, authors began trying to represent contemporary lives as they were, a prime example being George Eliot's Middlemarch, ...

“The Midnight Library by Matt Haig is one of the most popular magical realism books of the last several years,” says Julianne Buonocore, president of the Literary Lifestyle, a virtual reading ...

The connotations of the word “realism” in French literature are so varied that the magnitude of the subject is even greater than appears at first sight. In its later developments realistic ...

The Life of Pi, Yann Martel / Amazon. Perhaps the best-known example of magical realism in literature from the 21st century is Life of Pi.Yann Martel’s novel follows a boy stranded at sea for ...

Garcia Marquez may not have invented magical realism, but he was its most adept practitioner, capable of mixing the transcendent and the bawdy, the whimsical and the tragic, in equal proportions.

This article appears in the August 8/15, 2022 issue.. Illustration by Lily Qian. As the Soviet Union was collapsing in 1991, the emerging Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin attended a literary ...

In Little Children Dream of God, playwright Jeff Augustin uses aspects of magical realism, a style that originated in literature and visual art. The framework of his play is apparently realistic ...

Folk realism: The literature exploring England's legends and landscapes. As the Beast from the East bites in Britain, David Barnett is reminded of how little it takes to turn our world into a ...

Magic realism once referred to the literary style of a loosely connected group of Latin American authors who penned works some 60 years ago, but in the English-speaking world, ...