Life is never more exciting than it is in that short period in your life when you believe that magic is real. Perhaps you believe in in Santa Claus, or maybe you grew up keeping an eye out on the ...

Magic does not always arrive with spectacle. In magical realism, it slips quietly into everyday life. Ghosts talk, food carries emotions, and children hear voices across continents. This selection of ...

Children's outreach specialist Katie Jane Morris and I were recently discussing our mutual fondness for the works of Sarah Addison Allen. Her debut novel, "Garden Spells," remains my favorite. The ...

With the start of October on the horizon we are officially in the midst of fall (and I am fully embracing it, despite the 90 degree weather that is still plaguing me... thanks New York City). And that ...

Readers who've been enchanted by the surreal utopia of Macondo in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1967 masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, know all about magical realism: the literary technique in ...

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, Rushdie, ...

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My mother has always been a great fan of magical realism. I think part of the unavoidable rebellion of growing up and being a teenager led me to refuse to ever read these bizarre, mystical novels she ...

In Rebecca Serle’s new book “Expiration Dates: A Novel,” the protagonist, Daphne, knows when her relationships will end. A slip of paper always shows up with a name and a number for how long they will ...