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There’s a delightful mystery called “The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra” by Vaseem Khan that weaves in a touch of magical realism. Magical realism refers to a story that takes place in the ...

Magical Realism. It’s one of those great literary terms that sounds both highly educated and also really cool. And, let’s be honest, magical realism is really cool, and anyone who disagrees has ...

In Knives Out, Marta Cabrera (Ana de Armas) becomes an agent of the film’s magical realism. Claire Folger/Lionsgate; photo-illustration by Eric Vilas-Boas/Observer Whether it takes the form of a ...

Life is never more exciting than it is in that short period in your life when you believe that magic is real. Perhaps you believe in in Santa Claus, or maybe you grew up keeping an eye out on the ...

Gabriel García Márquez and his spell of magical realism. We’ll cast it again, in remembrance. In this 2003 photo released by the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI), Colombian Nobel ...

In her first solo exhibition at the Latino Art Museum in Pomona, Laguna Beach artist, Pamela Diaz Martinez shows her robust, Magic Realism paintings of stilted ostriches and broken-winged donkeys. The ...

In 1940s-era Latin America, a new genre of literature started to take off. Magic realism, initially inspired by the Surrealist art movement, started to gain major traction when Gabriel Garcia Marquez ...

Harry, as children fluent in any of (at last count) 61 languages are well aware, is a teenage wizard enrolled at Hogwarts Academy, a kind of coed Eton for the magically inclined, housed in a vast ...

In the recent short story by Chilean author Alberto Fuguet "Mas Estrellas Que en el Cielo" ("More Stars Than in the Sky"), two young Chileans are holding forth in a Los Angeles coffee shop. The ...