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‘Wicker’ Provides a Rom-Com Interlaced With Substance

November 1, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments absurdist comedy, Alex Huston Fischer, Alexander Skarsgard, body autonomy, Brothers Grimm, class and society, dark comedy, Eleanor Wilson, Elizabeth Debicki, erotic comedy, fairy tale adaptations, fairy tales, fantasy comedy, fantasy film, female sexuality, feminist cinema, feminist comedy, feminist fable, film adaptation, film criticism, folk fantasy, folk horror, folklore, gallows humor, gender roles, gossip, independent cinema, jealousy, love and devotion, magical craftsmanship, magical realism, marriage, medieval fantasy, movie reviews, Olivia Colman, ostracism, outsiders, patriarchal society, patriarchy, Peter Dinklage, Richard E. Grant, romantic comedy, romantic fantasy, satire, sexual desire, sexual repression, small-town prejudice, social conformity, social satire, The Wicker Husband, unconventional romance, Ursula Wills, Wicker, Wicker film review, wicker man, Wicker movie

Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård tentpole this offbeat drama from Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson

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Carla Baratta: The BFG Interview

September 24, 2026September 30, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 0 Comments Adelita, Book and Film Globe, Carla Baratta, Carlos Moreno, Colombian television, Fernanda del Carpio, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, interview, Latin American cinema, Laura Mora, Laura Taylor, Macondo, magical realism, Margarita Rosa de Francisco, Mayans M.C., Netflix, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Sons of Anarchy, Venezuelan actress

The Venezuelan model turned star of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ talks Macondo

Chloe Benjamin Follows Up ‘The Immortalists’ With ‘Under Story’

September 1, 2026August 24, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments alternate reality, Antarctica, Book Review, books, Chloe Benjamin, cosmology, family, fiction, fungi, grief, literary fiction, loss, magical realism, McMurdo Station, mycology, nature, novel, parallel universe, parenthood, physics, science fiction, speculative fiction, The Immortalists, Under Story

Loss drives the protagonists to Antarctica and an alternate universe

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Netflix’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ Is a Cinematic Miracle

August 13, 2026August 13, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 3 Comments Ángela Cano, book adaptation, Carla Baratta, Claudio Cataño, Colombia, Dynamo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julián Román, Latin American cinema, Laura Mora, Laura Taylor, Licinia Alzate, Macondo, magical realism, Marleyda Soto, Netflix, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Streaming, Television Review

Magical Macondo comes to life even as Colombia suffers tragedy

Let ‘Swell’ Expand Your Reality

June 21, 2026June 21, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments A Table for Six, Asian literature, Blanket, Blimp, book criticism, Book Review, contemporary authors, contemporary literature, experimental fiction, family relationships, fiction collections, genre bending fiction, Give Them the Lindy Hop, grief and loss, independent publishing, international fiction, Janet Hong, Janet Hong translation, Korean literature, literary culture, literary fiction, literary translation, magical realism, marriage and infidelity, modern short stories, multiverse stories, Son Bo mi, South Korean fiction, speculative fiction, Swell, The Love of a Scientist, translated literature, Two Lines Press, Two Lines Press books, UFO fiction, unreliable narrators, world literature

A new collection of Son Bo-Mi’s stories arrives in English

Amitav Ghosh Writes a Covid Novel Like No one Else

June 16, 2026June 4, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Amitav Ghosh, Bengali culture, book criticism, Book Review, Calcutta, climate fiction, contemporary fiction, COVID-19 novels, family sagas, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Ghost-Eye, Gun Island, historical fiction, immigration and identity, Indian literature, international literature, Kolkata, literary fiction, literary novels, magical realism, Manasa Devi, Marwari community, novel reviews, pandemic fiction, Past Lives, reincarnation, South Asian literature, spirituality and religion, world literature

Follow-up to ‘Gun Island,’ ‘Ghost-Eye’ takes us from Brooklyn to Calcutta and back in time

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16 New Books To Read in November

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From Gary Shteyngart’s pursuit of pleasure to Rachel Maddow’s reckoning with American justice, November brings literary ambition, political urgency and some gloriously strange fiction.

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Norm Was a Vibe

October 31, 2026November 4, 2026 Rob Kutner 1

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Paweł Pawlikowski Drives Us Through a Decimated ‘Fatherland’

October 24, 2026October 28, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

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But ‘Who is Martin Mull?’

October 21, 2026October 26, 2026 Samuel Porteous 0

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