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

Among artistic themes that will play out at Independent New York this May is a return to childhood, and a related exploration of magical realism ... of American pop culture with African folklore.” ...

Download a novel. Lose yourself in an absurdist plot — not because it’s noble, productive, or good for you, but simply ...

I was relieved, until he complimented my work: “I really loved the poems in your application, they have a real Latin American, magic realism feel ... We learn American culture inside and ...

Rebecca Serle's version of magical realism is close enough to reality ... where she covers the latest in TV, pop culture, movies and all things streaming. Her superpower is matching people up ...

we're whisked away to Saunders' version of the bardo — the Tibetan Buddhist purgatory for souls in limbo — a magical, bizarre, hilarious, and sometimes frightening place. This book ...

“If it’s not fun, I’m not interested,” he says. “I created a hybrid form by adding music, and a magic realism element that plays with narrative structures, but people are accustomed to ...

In other words, pop art is the realism of the second half of the 20 th century and the beginning of the 21 st century. Just as there was a pictorial realism of everyday life in Italy, Spain ...

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 ...