Do your kids love magical realism middle grade books? Magical realism books for tweens are realistic (ish) stories with ...

For fans of: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez Regarded as one of the greatest magical realism books ever ...

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Bantam, $7). What is there to say except that it’s the greatest of all realist novels? Tolstoy, like Virgil, is completely adequate (by which I mean amazingly ...

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s “Theft” is an understated yet successful portrayal of life in turn of the century Tanzania.

The connotations of the word “realism” in French literature are so varied that the magnitude of the subject is even greater than appears at first sight. In its later developments realistic ...