When Colonel Aureliano Buendia faced the firing squad, time slipped away, and his life became a dream. Before him rose the mythical town of Macondo and its retinue of gypsies and their pipes and ...

In the recent short story by Chilean author Alberto Fuguet "Mas Estrellas Que en el Cielo" ("More Stars Than in the Sky"), two young Chileans are holding forth in a Los Angeles coffee shop. The ...

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 ...

I need a myth fix from time to time. When I feel fragile or drained of energy for whatever reason, I reach for a book of magical realism to get me through the doldrums. Myra Dutton is the author of ...

If you read a Gabriel García Marquez book in high school, or were into Jorge Luis Borges in college, then there’s a new Twitter bot that’s sure to slake your literary thirst. Magic Realism Bot pays ...

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 ...

The Netflix series "One Hundred Years of Solitude" launches on December 11. It remains to be seen whether fans think it does the cult novel justice. On location in Colombia, however, the atmosphere ...