Lucy Rick’s Portland State University-funded magical realism film screens at the Hollywood Theatre on June 29.

This week’s common thread is sound—from the song of a mysterious muse, to the whispers of wartime secrets, to the roar of an ...

Zohran Mamdani is a left-wing daydream of a New York City mayoral candidate. He’s young—33—and proudly socialist. His ...

Flashes of magic realism — supernatural happenings that are presented as ordinary occurrences, with minimal explanation — blur the line between realistic fiction and fantasy.

Magical realism originates from Latin America and comprises oral storytelling. The genre itself is entangled with heritage, with many of its most prized authors criticising colonialism and ...

Magical realism is a sensibility that has proven remarkably enduring and flexible in the realm of TV, appearing in various genres, from sitcoms to thrillers and everything in between.

Today, magical realism in literature continues to evolve worldwide, in the work of such contemporary novelists as Salman Rushdie (whose Midnight’s Children was filmed by Deepa Mehta in 2012), ...

When J.R.R. Tolkein, often recognized as the Father of High Fantasy, writes “Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger,” in The Fellowship of the Ring, it ...

Bradley Sides is an author of magical realism and a writing teacher at Calhoun Community College in Huntsville, Alabama. His new collection of stories, Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood, is ...

Kazakhstan: Magic realism meets socialist realism on the Almaty stage Shahmardan Comes Out of the Well addresses a topic still harrowing for Kazakhstan a century on: the famine unleashed when the ...

Magical realism often hinges on the idea that belief can transform the ordinary into something amazing. Our beliefs shape our reality, and when we open ourselves to the possibility of magic, ...