There’s a delightful mystery called “The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra” by Vaseem Khan that weaves in a touch of magical realism. Magical realism refers to a story that takes place in the ...

Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward’s “Let Us Descend” is a searing and lyrical historical novel that voyages through the antebellum South in a stunning adaptation of Dante’s “Inferno” — ...

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The Netflix series "One Hundred Years of Solitude" launches on December 11. It remains to be seen whether fans think it does the cult novel justice. On location in Colombia, however, the atmosphere ...

Released in 2017, What Remains of Edith Finch is a unique walking simulator that tells the stories of various family members in the Finch family. As 17-year-old Edith Finch, the player explores the ...

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 — ...

Magical realism is a literary style that Latin Americans have used for decades. It is a way of storytelling in which ordinary people experience some inexplicable, almost mystical phenomena. They ...

It isn’t easy to adapt a 600-page novel sprawling across decades and battlefields and fantastical scenarios. The Tin Drum‘s coming-of-age saga follows little Oskar Matzerath as he narrates his life ...

Netflix's Pedro Pramo is notable for several reasons. It is the first major adaptation of the classic 1955 Juan Rulfo novel a seminal masterpiece of Mexican literature that is widely considered to be ...

Before his blockbuster Founding Fathers remix “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda burst onto the scene with his Tony-winning ode to his hometown, the musical “In the Heights.” Set in the gentrifying ...

Fatou Diome’s writing constantly enriches and renews Francophone African literary production, especially in the realms of characterization, intertextuality, and transnationalism. Indeed, her work ...

THUMBNAIL SKETCH: A young woman moves in with her boyfriend expecting domestic bliss, but instead has trouble getting comfortable, both with the house and her relationship. Soon, the walls are talking ...