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 ...

The power of magical realism as a mode of storytelling is that it allows a given piece of fiction to have one foot in the real world and the other in the fantastic. Sometimes, this is subtle, but in ...

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Last month, I shared some of the surrealist art projects I do with my students and described the strange, bizarre and often symbolic qualities of surrealism. Now, we will venture into the similar — ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author of top magical realism book "The Water Dancer," attends a panel at The Apollo Theater on February 27, 2018 in New York City. Magical realism is a genre that has been ...

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We explore the roots, tenets of the genre, and its rise in Latin American Literature. Blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, magical realism in literature and other media combines fantasy ...