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August continues July’s trend of being rich in genre fiction, with new novels from Hugo Award winner T. Kingfisher and Hugo ...
Explore Jacinda Ardern’s 6 must-read books on courage, empathy, and resilience. Each story offers wisdom you will carry into ...
Parts of the book are graphic and painful, but the story itself is too important to be ignored. Lyrical, poetic, and haunting, Beloved may be magical, but it's far from lighthearted.
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Other books of magical realism that you might recognize: "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel, "Chocolat" by Joanne Harris, "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke, and "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey ...
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 ...
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.) ...
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, ...
This episode features two different books by one author: Salman Rushdie. And while the two stories differ, recurrent themes of magical realism and the supernatural accompany them both. First ...
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 ...