Braucherei followers have passed down their rituals and charms in relative secrecy for hundreds of years. But as social media ...

Only a few years ago, Nazila Azizi was dodging bullets fired by the Taliban and trying to climb aboard one of the last evacuation flights out of Kabul. Today, the Afghan native is an architect and ...

In “Bloodaxe,” Hirst will explore the antics of the warrior Erik Bloodaxe, his wife Gunnhild and Egil, “a killer and a poet.” “To me, Egil was a gift from the gods. In Iceland, he’s one of the country ...

The power of magical realism as a mode of storytelling is that it allows a given piece of fiction to have one foot in the real world and the other in the fantastic. Sometimes, this is subtle, but in ...

Just about every frame of Variations on a Theme, a new South African film directed by Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar and shot by Gray Kotzé, has potential as a standalone work of art. Some frames ...

BROOKFIELD — Magical realism is a term often associated with fiction and other pieces of art that present a realistic story with magical elements, often blending the two together. Playwright Jose ...

Renderings for the Shakira Stadium project in Madrid, 2026. Image © © BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group The Shakira Stadium project, set on the site of the existing Iberdrola ...

When I learned that Łukasz Żal was the cinematographer for Chloé Zhao’s latest film, Hamnet, I was immediately intrigued. Known for his striking black-and-white photography in Paweł Pawlikowski’s Ida ...

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 ...