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 ...

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 ...

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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“We are all migrants through time,” Mohsin Hamid writes in Exit West, his fourth novel, a slender, poetic tale that packs a wallop as it traces the odyssey of two young lovers escaping their ...

No doubt some readers unfamiliar with the source material will dismiss Books of Magic as a blatant Harry Potter ripoff. That's unfair, since the original comics predate Harry Potter by a number of ...