Now that ‘Jaws’ is officially 50 years old, it’s high time to name the very best of the legendary director’s canon of ...

Since then, Allende, who writes in Spanish and has placed her own stamp on magical realism, has published 27 books. These have been translated into more than 40 languages and have sold over 77 ...

Novelist Isabel Allende on being 'eternally displaced', and why 1891 is a big year in her latest novel 'My Name is Emilia del Valle'.

More than 40 years after the release of her first novel, the best-selling Chilean-American author reflects on the reason she is drawn to stories that blend the mundane with the extraordinary.

Best-selling author Isabel Allende has been beloved for decades by millions of passionately loyal readers for her strong female protagonists and epic story lines stretching across the Americas.

Mario Vargas Llosa, who has died at the age of 89 in his native Peru, was a towering figure in Latin American literature and culture who rarely shied away from controversy. With more than 50 works ...

‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ series review: There is magic and realism in spades in this iteration of Macondo This vivid version of Gabriel García Márquez’s multigenerational epic is ...

It won the Colombian author the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982 and is widely praised as one of the most influential works of its era. I read it for the first time in college (in Spanish, no less) ...

The novel, which gave the world the idiom of ‘magical realism’; and which continues to be read, critiqued, interpreted and misinterpreted for its towering, ageless themes; appeared unconquerable. And ...

While hotly contested, magical realism traditionally refers to literature where magical events occur within a realist narrative, and which are presented as real to the characters and the reader. More ...