Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie and Haruki Murakami all wrote celebrated magical realism books that most critics count among the best books of all time. While the definitive origins remain unknown ...

It was a book review that Salman Rushdie said "lit the fire ... The Satanic Verses, a work of magic realism, was Rushdie's fourth novel, and he had already become famous as an author by then.

My first exposure to magical realism was reading Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Drawn into a world where tigers lived on boats with boys and trees bore fruit with teeth, I had to suspend all ‘rational’ ...

4 (UPI) --A jury is being seated for the New York trial of Hadi Matar, 27, who is accused of trying to kill author Salman ... Rushdie to go into hiding for nearly a decade. The book uses magical ...

Salman Rushdie’s attacker was convicted Friday of attempted murder for repeatedly stabbing the famed author in a bloody horror that left him blind in one eye. Hadi Matar, 26, was found guilty by ...