After working as a Journalist in Chile and later exiled after the Pinochet coup, Isabel Allende turns memory and myth into ...

"I want readers to know that choosing yourself isn’t selfish — it’s necessary," says author Yrsa Daley-Ward of her debut ...

The connotations of the word “realism” in French literature are so varied that the magnitude of the subject is even greater than appears at first sight. In its later developments realistic ...

Arline Mann, a former Goldman Sachs managing director turned painter, brings a lawyer’s precision and an artist’s intuition to illuminate the quiet resurgence of representational painting in ...

Latin American literature was made richer by the talents ... over whether Mr. Rulfo’s work should be categorized as magical realism, which incorporates elements of fantasy into otherwise real ...

Wagner’s story is an especially ingenious example of solarpunk in the way it plays with readers’ expectations: Were this a work of realism ... is in works of literature and art that take ...

Nor is it the realism of the Ashcan School, that of gritty urban life. Nor, certainly, is it the realism of contemporary American literature—of Theodore Dreiser, for instance—of the tawdry daily ...