If you love magical realism books, though, you’ll adore this 2020 novel by Susanna Clarke, the internationally bestselling author of the historical fantasy novel Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.

Explore Jacinda Ardern’s 6 must-read books on courage, empathy, and resilience. Each story offers wisdom you will carry into ...

August continues July’s trend of being rich in genre fiction, with new novels from Hugo Award winner T. Kingfisher and Hugo ...

Truth be told, this list could alternately be titled "Books Melissa Loves and Wanted an Excuse to Talk About." I'm an absolute nut for magical realism books. I have a hungry imagination, and the ...

BIG SUR AND THE ORANGES OF HIERONYMUS BOSCH (404 pp.)—Henry Miller —New Directions ($6.50). California, said Fred Allen, is all right if you are an orange. Henry (Tropic of Capricorn, ...

REALISM As Lee Braver’s EXCELLENT BOOK makes clear, continental philosophy has been almost entirely anti-realist in character. (Until the 21st century, that is.) ...

One big branch of U.S. writing is tracing-paper realism. Like sidewalk portrait artists, its practitioners offer a quick, literal sketch drawn from life, but only superficially true to it. Two ...

Children’s Books: Realism, Weirdness, Skeletons and Monsters A wordless picture book peopled with figures from the beguiling rural scenes of Bruegel. By Meghan Cox Gurdon Feb. 21, 2020 11:36 am ET ...