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01 November, 2021
Goya's White Duchess | Fashion, naïve art, and magic realism
The White Duchess by Goya shows how fashion was in 1795, and it can be seen as naïve art and magic realism avant la lettre.

08 March, 2024
Stories from the closet | I'm a Fool to Want You
In her anthology of closeted characters, I'm a Fool to Want You, Argentine writer Camila Sosa Villada asks the reader: will your freedom last?

30 May, 2023
Are you listening? | Empathy according to Tillie Walden
Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden is a graphic novel, in which two women who barely know each other run together away from their problems.

25 January, 2023
Midnight's Children | An epic of Indian independence
Published in 1981, Rushdie's Midnight’s Children is a tale of India's independence that combines historical fiction with magical realism.

31 August, 2021
Like Water for Chocolate | A Novel of food and magical realism
The Mexican writer Laura Esquivel wrote her first novel, Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate), in 1989.

27 April, 2021
The House of the Spirits | From a letter to Magical feminism
Isabel Allende is a Chilean writer who, born in 1942, has been described as one of the world’s most-read authors in Spanish. She started to write The House of the…

18 January, 2021
Rayuela | Playing with the novel
In 1963, the Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar published Rayuela, a book game that subverts every novel-related rules and structure.

14 July, 2020
The Underground Railroad tells more than Black history
It’s the 19th century, Georgia. Cora is a very young woman and a slave. The only things left to her by her runaway mother are a small garden and a galvanized fury at the world as she knows it.

18 May, 2020
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Uncle Boonmee is the final installment in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s multi-platform project Primitive, centered around the village of Nabua in Thailand.
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Goya’s White Duchess | Fashion, naïve art, and magic realism
Posted on 1 November 2021

Like Water for Chocolate | A Novel of food and magical realism
Posted on 31 August 2021

Adventure Time | Magic, swords and heartbreak
Posted on 28 October 2021

The House of the Spirits | From a letter to Magical feminism
Posted on 27 April 2021

Stories from the closet | I’m a Fool to Want You
Posted on 8 March 2024

Nana by Ai Yazawa | A mature shojo sensation
Posted on 30 November 2023

Encanto | Breaking the Circle of Trauma
Posted on 29 September 2022

Memories of My Melancholy Whores | In the space dividing lovers
Posted on 31 August 2021

One Hundred Years of Solitude | History in a family saga
Posted on 12 January 2021

Delicious in Dungeon manga review | A monster-eating culinary adventure
Posted on 17 February 2025

David Lynch is dead and will never die
Posted on 17 January 2025

A Passage to India by E. M. Forster Review | Crumbling certainties of a classic novel set in India
Posted on 27 September 2024