Olga Tokarczuk’s new rules for realism. In The Empusium, the Polish novelist’s first novel since her Nobel, she pays homage to Thomas Mann in order to redraw the boundaries of the realist novel. In ...

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 ...

Do your kids love magical realism middle grade books? Magical realism books for tweens are realistic (ish) stories with magical elements. And it’s not just for Latin American literature, either. Since ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Realism has been an important movement since its original inception at the turn of ...

We’ve waited seven years for Zadie Smith’s NW, the same number of years it took Joseph O’Neill to write Netherland and for Tom McCarthy to place Remainder with a mainstream publisher. It’s been four ...

Real versus natural might sound like a trick question (is oat milk real or natural, we wonder?), but in the case of historical theatrical movements, “realism” versus “naturalism” is the difference ...

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STOCKBRIDGE –Norman Rockwell a modernist painter? For the first time, Norman Rockwell Museum will explore the contrast between the abstract and realist movements, placing works by Rockwell, Wyeth and ...