Magic realism is one of those styles, and Leopold Segedin’s mixed-media paintings at the Byron Roche Gallery are distinguished examples.The textbook definition for magic realism has been since ...

“Magical realism” gets new definition in a horrific morning-show clip. Skip to the ... Many practitioners of professional magic refer to themselves as “illusionists,” a more formal and ...

“No,” I said, “It’s magical realism.” But when pressed to explain magical realism, I realized my definition really wound up sounding a lot like the definition of fantasy.

This doesn’t mean everyone has stopped writing magic realism. The genre seems to have more of a life among second- and third- generation Latin American writers living in the United States or ...

Children's outreach specialist Katie Jane Morris and I were recently discussing our mutual fondness for the works of Sarah Addison Allen. Her debut novel, "Garden Spells," remains my favorite.

Both of these novels, Pages of Mourning and The Cemetery of Untold Stories, from an emerging writer and a long-celebrated one, respectively, walk an open road of remembering love, grief, and fate.