Magic realism has become so commonplace, so trivialized, that its future as a mirror of deeper truth is being compromised. The technique has begun to lose its usefulness as a literary device. The l… ...

“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 ...

Putting authors and artists in categories may help pinpoint their work in socio-cultural and stylistic terms, but is inevitably restrictive of literature's essential universality. In South America ...

We explore the roots, tenets of the genre, and its rise in Latin American Literature. Blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, magical realism in literature and other media combines fantasy ...

Magical realism is most often used to describe the literary subgenre popularized by Latin American writers in the 1950s such as Jose Martí and Ruben Darío.

Describing new Latin American literature as ‘magic realist’ prolongs a stereotype that overlooks the full depth and richness of each novel’s true genre.

Somewhere between the fantasy realms of Mordor and Narnia and the real world lies magical realism, a literary genre in which fantastical elements are incorporated into grounded and often mundane ...

In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, we often overlook the subtle enchantments that surround us. Magical realism is a literary and artistic genre that blends the ordinary with the ...

Magical realism is a literary style that Latin Americans have used for decades. It is a way of storytelling in which ordinary people experience some inexplicable, almost mystical phenomena.

Latin American literature is often associated with magical realism, and magical realism is primarily associated with Latin America. But although the narrative tradition was widely popularized by ...

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 ...