There is a growing tendency to uniformity of thought and style. Trivia reigns supreme and literature becomes a branch of the entertainment industry. Instead of ‘socialist realism’, we have ‘market ...

“The Midnight Library by Matt Haig is one of the most popular magical realism books of the last several years,” says Julianne Buonocore, president of the Literary Lifestyle, a virtual reading ...

From the 1960's to the present, there has been a strong current of magic realism within the general movement of post-modernism, especially in British and North American literature. While a ...

Books & the Arts / In The Empusium, the Polish novelist’s first novel since her Nobel, she pays homage to Thomas Mann in ...

Tom Roberts researches Russian literature, cinema and intellectual history, specializing in the theory and practice of 19th-century literary realism. He is currently completing his first book, which ...