For instance, Labyrinths‘s “The Library of Babel” (written long before the age of online ... magical realism stories about achingly real people. You can see it in the short story “Orange ...

Spanning countries and traditions, magical realism has become a robust genre filled with stories of family, love and loss, all with a twist or a quirk. These elements can vary from ghosts of ...

Magical realism can lay claim to being one of most recognizable genres of prose writing. It mingles the probable and improbable, the real and the fantastic, and it provided the late-twentieth century ...

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez may be considered the fountainhead of magic realism or magical ...

Halloween might be just around the corner, but the four judges of our gothic short story competition have ... in – covering everything from magical realism to mental illness – and having ...

SERLE: In college I would write magical realism short stories. I read a lot of Aimee Bender and Haruki Murakami and enjoyed the way they would open up a universe and not explain it. Something ...

As the weather cools and the days get darker, new fall books arrive in libraries and bookstores. Look out for fiction both ...

Magical realism subtly ... telling a deeply personal story about love, family, and the challenges faced by unaccompanied minors.” With its blend of social realism, magical undertones, and ...

We look forward to reading your magical words. To submit a short story to Stylist ... device or similar online identifiers (e.g. login-based identifiers, randomly assigned identifiers, network ...

The novelist and short-story writer, who died Monday at ninety-six, contributed to The New Yorker for more than six decades. “Life and Death of the American Worker,” “Christopher Isherwood ...